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Stefanelli

The strongest concentration of Stefanelli in US arrival records points to Campania, with 77 of 138 arrivals (56 percent) originating there.

138

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

47

Comuni of
origin

13

Regioni
represented

18

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 138
Abruzzo: 1 arrivalsPuglia: 9 arrivalsCalabria: 9 arrivalsCampania: 77 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 1 arrivalsLazio: 14 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsMarche: 2 arrivalsMolise: 12 arrivalsSicilia: 2 arrivalsToscana: 2 arrivalsUmbria: 7 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

77 of 138
56 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 2
2 to 8
8 to 23
23+

Cittadinanza per discendenza

Could your Stefanelli line qualify for Italian citizenship?

The largest share of Stefanelli 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

13 regioni represented

  • Campania7756%
  • Lazio1410%
  • Molise129%
  • Puglia97%
  • Calabria97%
  • Umbria75%
  • Toscana21%
  • Marche21%
  • Sicilia21%
  • Lombardia11%
  • Emilia-Romagna11%
  • Liguria11%
  • Abruzzo11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Stefanelli on Wikipedia

  • Pietro Stefanelli

    ENIT

    1835 · Firenze

  • Augusto Stefanelli

    1884 · Presicce

  • Alberto Stefanelli

    1908 · Venezia

  • Francesco Stefanelli

    IT

    1922 · San Giovanni a Teduccio

  • Benito Stefanelli

    ENIT

    1928 · Roma

  • Romano Stefanelli

    IT

    1931 · Firenze

  • Armando Stefanelli

    IT

    1938 · Mondragone

  • Giuseppe Stefanelli

    IT

    1941 · Padova

  • Simonetta Stefanelli

    ENIT

    1954 · Roma

  • Marco Stefanelli

    IT

    1955 · Roma

  • Tiziana Stefanelli

    1971 · Roma

  • Roberta Stefanelli

    ENIT

    1974 · Verona

  • Stefano Stefanelli

    IT

    1974 · Vaste

  • Gerardo Stefanelli

    1975 · Formia

  • Matteo Stefanelli

    IT

    1975 · Milano

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.

Variants are surfaced from the surname index, not from per-name research. None of these is guaranteed to be the same family as Stefanelli.