Cognome

Tortora

The strongest concentration of Tortora in US arrival records points to Campania, with 96 of 130 arrivals (74 percent) originating there.

130

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

52

Comuni of
origin

11

Regioni
represented

15

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 130
Abruzzo: 4 arrivalsPuglia: 3 arrivalsBasilicata: 9 arrivalsCalabria: 6 arrivalsCampania: 96 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 1 arrivalsLazio: 1 arrivalsMolise: 4 arrivalsPiemonte: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 4 arrivalsToscana: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

96 of 130
74 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 3
3 to 10
10 to 29
29+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

11 regioni represented

  • Campania9674%
  • Basilicata97%
  • Calabria65%
  • Abruzzo43%
  • Molise43%
  • Sicilia43%
  • Puglia32%
  • Toscana11%
  • Piemonte11%
  • Lazio11%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Tortora 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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Tora

11 US arrivals

Di tortora

1 US arrivals

La tortora

1 US arrivals

Torto

15 US arrivals

Tortoro

4 US arrivals

Tortore

1 US arrivals

Fortora

8 US arrivals

Cortora

7 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 Tortora.

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