Cognome

Rosso

The strongest concentration of Rosso in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 60 of 210 arrivals (29 percent) originating there.

210

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

125

Comuni of
origin

16

Regioni
represented

0

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 210
Abruzzo: 13 arrivalsPuglia: 3 arrivalsBasilicata: 13 arrivalsCalabria: 15 arrivalsCampania: 33 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 9 arrivalsLiguria: 4 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 10 arrivalsPiemonte: 37 arrivalsSicilia: 60 arrivalsToscana: 3 arrivalsVeneto: 6 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

60 of 210
29 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 2
2 to 6
6 to 18
18+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

16 regioni represented

  • Sicilia6029%
  • Piemonte3718%
  • Campania3316%
  • Calabria157%
  • Basilicata136%
  • Abruzzo136%
  • Molise105%
  • Lazio94%
  • Veneto63%
  • Liguria42%
  • Toscana31%
  • Puglia31%
  • Lombardia10%
  • Marche10%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

Each row is a comune (municipality) where at least one passenger named Rosso was recorded between 1830 and 1912.

Varianti grafiche

Spelling variants worth checking

  • The spelling you know may not be the one in the records. For example, a family remembers Mansini, but the records read Mancini.
  • If your spelling does not appear, a close variant in the list below may be the same family.

Related guide

Myths About Name Changes at Ellis Island

Names were never changed at the border. The spelling here is the original Italian: Giovinelli in the records, perhaps Jovanelli in the family today.

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De rosso

12 US arrivals

Di rosso

6 US arrivals

Lo rosso

2 US arrivals

Del rosso

56 US arrivals

Dal rosso

1 US arrivals

Dei rosso

1 US arrivals

Roso

19 US arrivals

Ross

2 US arrivals

Variants are surfaced from the surname index, not from per-name research. None of these is guaranteed to be the same family as Rosso.

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