Cognome

Villa

The strongest concentration of Villa in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 46 of 149 arrivals (31 percent) originating there.

149

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

70

Comuni of
origin

14

Regioni
represented

68

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 149
Abruzzo: 16 arrivalsPuglia: 2 arrivalsBasilicata: 1 arrivalsCalabria: 2 arrivalsCampania: 17 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 7 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 2 arrivalsLazio: 18 arrivalsLiguria: 3 arrivalsLombardia: 12 arrivalsMarche: 3 arrivalsPiemonte: 18 arrivalsSicilia: 46 arrivalsUmbria: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

46 of 149
31 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 1
1 to 5
5 to 14
14+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

14 regioni represented

  • Sicilia4631%
  • Piemonte1812%
  • Lazio1812%
  • Campania1711%
  • Abruzzo1611%
  • Lombardia128%
  • Emilia-Romagna75%
  • Liguria32%
  • Marche32%
  • Umbria21%
  • Puglia21%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia21%
  • Calabria21%
  • Basilicata11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Villa 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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Villla

1 US arrivals

La villa

8 US arrivals

Villalla

1 US arrivals

Villella

134 US arrivals

Di villa

3 US arrivals

Da villa

1 US arrivals

De villa

1 US arrivals

Lo villa

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 Villa.

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