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Sofia

The strongest concentration of Sofia in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 52 of 144 arrivals (36 percent) originating there.

144

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

44

Comuni of
origin

11

Regioni
represented

3

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 144
Abruzzo: 1 arrivalsPuglia: 1 arrivalsBasilicata: 23 arrivalsCalabria: 8 arrivalsCampania: 37 arrivalsMarche: 1 arrivalsMolise: 1 arrivalsPiemonte: 18 arrivalsSicilia: 52 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

52 of 144
36 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 2
2 to 5
5 to 16
16+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

11 regioni represented

  • Sicilia5236%
  • Campania3726%
  • Basilicata2316%
  • Piemonte1813%
  • Calabria86%
  • Umbria11%
  • Marche11%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol11%
  • Puglia11%
  • Molise11%
  • Abruzzo11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Sofia on Wikipedia

  • Francesco Sofia Alessio

    IT

    1873 · Radicena

  • Corrado Sofia

    1906 · Noto

  • Vinicio Sofia

    ENIT

    1907 · Corleone

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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Soffia

2 US arrivals

Ssofia

1 US arrivals

Sofi

10 US arrivals

Sofio

11 US arrivals

Sofiez

1 US arrivals

Sofina

1 US arrivals

Sofini

1 US arrivals

Santasofia

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 Sofia.

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