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Spinelli

The strongest concentration of Spinelli in US arrival records points to Campania, with 165 of 527 arrivals (31 percent) originating there.

527

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

186

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

70

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 527
Abruzzo: 39 arrivalsPuglia: 83 arrivalsBasilicata: 8 arrivalsCalabria: 57 arrivalsCampania: 165 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 16 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 5 arrivalsMarche: 6 arrivalsMolise: 15 arrivalsPiemonte: 6 arrivalsSicilia: 112 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 2 arrivalsToscana: 7 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

165 of 527
31 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 5
5 to 17
17 to 50
50+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Campania16531%
  • Sicilia11221%
  • Puglia8316%
  • Calabria5711%
  • Abruzzo397%
  • Lazio163%
  • Molise153%
  • Basilicata82%
  • Toscana71%
  • Marche61%
  • Piemonte61%
  • Lombardia51%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol20%
  • Veneto20%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia10%
  • Liguria10%
  • Umbria10%
  • Emilia-Romagna10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Spinelli 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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Spinelliu

1 US arrivals

Spineli

4 US arrivals

Spinella

196 US arrivals

Spinello

67 US arrivals

Spinellu

1 US arrivals

Spinielli

4 US arrivals

Spianelli

1 US arrivals

Spinellas

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 Spinelli.

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