Cognome

Santoro

The strongest concentration of Santoro in US arrival records points to Campania, with 436 of 1,361 arrivals (32 percent) originating there.

1,361

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

390

Comuni of
origin

19

Regioni
represented

60

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 1,361
Abruzzo: 54 arrivalsPuglia: 80 arrivalsBasilicata: 171 arrivalsCalabria: 177 arrivalsCampania: 436 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 2 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 73 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 9 arrivalsMarche: 11 arrivalsMolise: 89 arrivalsPiemonte: 18 arrivalsSardegna: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 227 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsToscana: 7 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

436 of 1,361
32 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 13
13 to 44
44 to 131
131+

Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your Santoro line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Santoro arrivals came from Campania, most often from the provincia of Avellino. 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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Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

19 regioni represented

  • Campania43632%
  • Sicilia22717%
  • Calabria17713%
  • Basilicata17113%
  • Molise897%
  • Puglia806%
  • Lazio735%
  • Abruzzo544%
  • Piemonte181%
  • Marche111%
  • Lombardia91%
  • Toscana71%
  • Emilia-Romagna20%
  • Veneto20%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Umbria10%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol10%
  • Liguria10%
  • Sardegna10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Santoro on Wikipedia

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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La santoro

2 US arrivals

De santoro

1 US arrivals

Di santoro

1 US arrivals

Santorro

2 US arrivals

Del santoro

4 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 Santoro.