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Vitale

The strongest concentration of Vitale in US arrival records points to Sicilia, with 563 of 1,319 arrivals (43 percent) originating there.

1,319

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

369

Comuni of
origin

17

Regioni
represented

73

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 1,319
Abruzzo: 72 arrivalsPuglia: 45 arrivalsBasilicata: 57 arrivalsCalabria: 121 arrivalsCampania: 332 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 6 arrivalsLazio: 33 arrivalsLiguria: 8 arrivalsLombardia: 7 arrivalsMarche: 6 arrivalsMolise: 32 arrivalsPiemonte: 21 arrivalsSicilia: 563 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 4 arrivalsToscana: 8 arrivalsUmbria: 2 arrivalsVeneto: 2 arrivals

Top regione

Sicilia

563 of 1,319
43 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 17
17 to 56
56 to 169
169+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

17 regioni represented

  • Sicilia56343%
  • Campania33225%
  • Calabria1219%
  • Abruzzo725%
  • Basilicata574%
  • Puglia453%
  • Lazio333%
  • Molise322%
  • Piemonte212%
  • Toscana81%
  • Liguria81%
  • Lombardia71%
  • Emilia-Romagna60%
  • Marche60%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol40%
  • Veneto20%
  • Umbria20%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

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

Persone notevoli

Notable Vitale 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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Di vitale

6 US arrivals

Vittale

1 US arrivals

San vitale

1 US arrivals

Vitalile

2 US arrivals

Noto vitale

2 US arrivals

Vitali

142 US arrivals

Vitalo

11 US arrivals

Vitala

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 Vitale.

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