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Italian Names

by Maria Maria (guest)

1/18/2005, 6:12 PM

What are your favorite Italian-type names?

Mine are Elisabetta, Alessandra, Francesca, and Caterina for girls, and Giorgio and Giuseppe for boys.

btw, my name is really Mary, not Maria--I'm only like an eighth Italian.

#Italian

Replies

- Tanya (guest)

1/20/2005, 8:02 AM

Boys:
Marco
Livio

Girls:
Francesca
Renata
Marcella

- Silverblaze (guest) +1

1/19/2005, 1:58 PM

Arianna
Giovanna
Giustina
Giuliana
Sophia
Elena
Alessia
Katerina
Paola
Silvia
Gemma
Antonia
Carla

Antonio
Stefano
Giuglielmo
Carlo
Giorgio
Luciano
Celestino
Gaetano
Falco

- Maria Maria (guest)

1/19/2005, 3:02 PM

Yeah, Guglielmo is kind of cool, but I still like Will and William better for that.

- Oona (guest)

1/19/2005, 10:26 AM

I love Luca, Giovanni, Dominic, Vincente and Pascal on boys. DH is 1/2 Italian, and most of these are family names even though Pascal (his dad) doesn't use the traditional Italian spelling.

I'm not as crazy about any girl names, although I do like Francesca.

- Lissa (guest)

1/19/2005, 9:54 AM

I like:

Alessandra
Alessia (prefer the ss to x- this is "Alexa")
Annabella
Beatrice- as used by Dante
Chiara (Clara or Claire)
Caterina
Diana
Daniela
Elisabetta
Gianna
Giovanna
Ilaria or Ylaria (Hilary)
Isabella
Liana
Liliana
Michelina
Nicola, Nicoletta
Sara
Serafina
Sofia
Teresa

- Eva +3

1/19/2005, 8:15 AM

This is my list from my book of Italian names:

GIRLS
Aimé
Angela
Ada
Adelia
Aìda
Alice
Caterina
Celeste
Chiara
Cloe
Dafne
Dalia
Emma
Fiora
Gabriella
Ginevra
Graziella
Isabella
Livia
Lea
Lia
Martina
Marina
Sira
Serena
Sofia
Stella
Tea
Viola
Violetta
Zoe

BOYS
Andrea
Angelo
Bruno
Clemente
Daniello
Dante
Elio
Ettore
Ezio
Fabrizio
Fiore
Gabriello
Galeazzo
Gianni
Lazzaro
Leonardo
Lorenzo
Luca
Leo
Marcello
Marco
Matteo
Mattia
Maurizio
Mauro
Michele
Niccolò
Orlando
Paolo
Roberto
Romeo
Taddeo
Teo
Tiziano
Ugo
Vitale
Zaccaria

Oops, that was TOO long.
Eva

- Maria Maria (guest) +2

1/19/2005, 2:55 PM

Wow, you have a whole book of them?

sounds fun! what's it called?

- Eva +1

1/19/2005, 11:21 PM

Yeah, I know I'm crazy. But I still prefer to have a book than read enormous lists of names in the screen of my computer.
So, when I went to Italy last summer, I bought it.
In fact, the first thing I did when we arrived to Italy (we stopped in Milan, after a TERRIBLE night in the bus) was go to a library! My class mates thought I was (still more) crazy.

The book is called NOMI & NOMI, Origine e significato (Ed. Demetra)

I also have two books of French names, one of Basque's, one of English's (bought in the only shop in the nearest city that sells only English books), one of Spanish's and, obviously, two of Catalan names. I love to have them!!

Eva