What is the name of the fictional crime family at the center of all three Godfather films?

The Corleone family is the fictional crime family at the center of all three Godfather films.

The family is named after Vito Corleone, whose birthplace is the Sicilian town of Corleone. In the first film, Vito leads the family in New York, and Michael eventually takes over after a series of attacks and power struggles. The family’s name remains central even as its activities expand beyond New York.

The trilogy presents the Corleones as both a criminal organization and a family network. Weddings, funerals, business meetings, and private arguments reveal how personal obligations and organized crime overlap. That combination is one reason the films are often discussed as family dramas as well as gangster films.

The Corleones are distinct from rival New York families such as the Tattaglias, Barzinis, Cuneos, and Straccis. Those families form part of the broader Mafia landscape, but they are not the central family of the trilogy.