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Selvaggi

The strongest concentration of Selvaggi in US arrival records points to Basilicata, with 23 of 55 arrivals (42 percent) originating there.

55

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

21

Comuni of
origin

8

Regioni
represented

10

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 55
Abruzzo: 2 arrivalsPuglia: 7 arrivalsBasilicata: 23 arrivalsCalabria: 2 arrivalsCampania: 3 arrivalsLazio: 4 arrivalsMolise: 11 arrivalsSicilia: 3 arrivals

Top regione

Basilicata

23 of 55
42 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 2
2 to 7
7+

Persone notevoli

Notable Selvaggi 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.

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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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Selvaggio

140 US arrivals

Selvagi

2 US arrivals

Selvaggini

1 US arrivals

Selvaggi-vitella

1 US arrivals

Selva

24 US arrivals

Silvaggi

8 US arrivals

Selvagio

7 US arrivals

Salvaggi

6 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 Selvaggi.

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

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