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Viola

The strongest concentration of Viola in US arrival records points to Campania, with 162 of 536 arrivals (30 percent) originating there.

536

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

220

Comuni of
origin

18

Regioni
represented

57

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 536
Abruzzo: 26 arrivalsPuglia: 23 arrivalsBasilicata: 35 arrivalsCalabria: 46 arrivalsCampania: 162 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 3 arrivalsFriuli-Venezia Giulia: 2 arrivalsLazio: 28 arrivalsLiguria: 2 arrivalsLombardia: 8 arrivalsMarche: 4 arrivalsMolise: 10 arrivalsPiemonte: 14 arrivalsSicilia: 159 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 6 arrivalsToscana: 4 arrivalsUmbria: 3 arrivalsVeneto: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

162 of 536
30 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 5
5 to 16
16 to 49
49+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

18 regioni represented

  • Campania16230%
  • Sicilia15930%
  • Calabria469%
  • Basilicata357%
  • Lazio285%
  • Abruzzo265%
  • Puglia234%
  • Piemonte143%
  • Molise102%
  • Lombardia81%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol61%
  • Marche41%
  • Toscana41%
  • Emilia-Romagna31%
  • Umbria31%
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia20%
  • Liguria20%
  • Veneto10%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Viola 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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La viola

5 US arrivals

De viola

2 US arrivals

Di viola

1 US arrivals

Violla

1 US arrivals

Violano

12 US arrivals

Violani

1 US arrivals

Violant

1 US arrivals

Della viola

8 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 Viola.

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