Cognome

Sanseverino

The strongest concentration of Sanseverino in US arrival records points to Campania, with 50 of 76 arrivals (66 percent) originating there.

76

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

32

Comuni of
origin

6

Regioni
represented

28

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 76
Abruzzo: 2 arrivalsPuglia: 4 arrivalsBasilicata: 10 arrivalsCalabria: 7 arrivalsCampania: 50 arrivalsSicilia: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

50 of 76
66 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 2
2 to 5
5 to 15
15+

Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your Sanseverino line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Sanseverino arrivals came from Campania, most often from the provincia of Salerno. If one of them is your ancestor, Italy may recognize you as a citizen under jure sanguinis (citizenship by descent).

The surname alone does not decide it. Each generation between that ancestor and you does: who naturalized, and when. Since the 2025 law, the number of generations matters too.

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A Sanseverino from Campania

Most often from Salerno (SA)

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Persone notevoli

Notable Sanseverino on Wikipedia

  • Guglielmo Sanseverino

    IT

    1350 · Italia meridionale

  • Roberto Sanseverino d'Aragona

    ENIT

    1418 · Italia

  • Alessandro Sanseverino

    1450 · Italia

  • Antonello Sanseverino

    IT

    1458 · Salerno

  • Galeazzo Sanseverino

    ENIT

    1458 · Lombardia

  • Federico Sanseverino

    ENIT

    1475 · Napoli

  • Antonio Sanseverino

    ENIT

    1477 · Napoli

  • Roberto II Sanseverino

    IT

    1485 · Salerno

  • Ferrante Sanseverino

    ENIT

    1507 · Napoli

  • Niccolo Berardino Sanseverino

    1541 · Morano Calabro

  • Barbara Sanseverino

    ENIT

    1550 · Milano

  • Lucio Sanseverino

    ENIT

    1565 · Napoli

  • Aurora Sanseverino

    ENIT

    1669 · Grumento Nova

  • Ignazio Roero Sanseverino

    IT

    1704 · Torino

  • Luigi II Sanseverino

    IT

    1705 · Napoli

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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San severino

1 US arrivals

Sanserino

2 US arrivals

Sanseveri

1 US arrivals

Sanseverio

1 US arrivals

Sanseverinati

1 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 Sanseverino.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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