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I'm not fond of Italian names in general, but I'll give it a try.

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Maria
Luisa
Mattea
Violetta
Petronilla
Antonella
Marzia
Fausta
Rosetta
Vitalia

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Angelo
Giacomo
Giuseppe
Cornelio
Amato
Taddeo
Timoteo
Achille
Vitale
Eugenio

I just like Italian girl's names:
Alessandra
Dorotea
Fiorenza
Gianna
Mattea
Osanna

Grazia
Alessandra
Valentina
Francesca
Elisabetta
Concetta
Stella
Aurelia
Allegra
Giordana

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Roberto
Michele
Patrizio
Giacomo
Salvatore
Ferdinando
Marco
Luca
Vincenzo
Leonardo

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Girls:

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Cosima
Marcella
Raffaella
Elettra
Ginevra
Antonella
Violetta
Gioia
Fiammetta
Alba

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Boys:

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Federico
Bruno
Orlando
Prospero
Ottavio
Aurelio
Dante
Giambattista
Leonardo
Narciso

Alessandro
Lorenzo
Giacomo
Mattia
Leonardo
Alessio
Luca
Amadeo
Valentino
Angelo

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Alessandra
Elisabetta
Carlotta
Marina
Amedea
Beatrice
Leonora
Alessia
Rosa
Carolina

Evelina
Alba
Cosima
Gaia
Adelina
Emelina
Ottavia
Fiammetta
Ginevra
Romola

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...11th place goes to Clio

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Federico
Arturo
Luca
Armando
Emlio
Dante
Leonardo
Matteo
Orlando
Vittore

I don't think I can get to ten for each gender. Not that Italian names are bad, I just don't have that many on my list:

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Lorenzo
Luka/Luca
Leonardo
Alonzo/Alonso
Francesco

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Arietta
Maddalena
Lucia (I'm even warming to the Italian pronunciation)
Ilaria
Fiammetta

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And Italian place names (in English and Italian)
Florence
Venezia

Maria
Emilia
Anna
Cecilia
Ginevra
Diana
Rosalia
Elena
Marcella
Eleonora

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Andrea
Dante
Ivo
Luca
Loris
Nico
Raul
Marcello
Edoardo
Enrico

In no particular order.

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•Letizia
•Fabrizia
•Annunziata
•Isotta
•Federica
•Vittoria
•Paola
•Eloisa
•Beatrice
•Francesca

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•Lorenzo
•Matteo
•Aurelio
•Amadeo
•Sergio
•Orsino
•Rodrigo
•Taddeo
•Prospero
•Alessandro

Girls are easy:

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Alessandra
Arianna
Carolina
Caterina
Francesca
Gabriella
Giulietta
Luisa
Marina
Sofia

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Boys are more difficult:

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Adriano
Dante
Domenico
Francesco
Leonardo or Leo
Lorenzo
Luciano
Mario
Niccolo
Stefano

Giuditta and Matilde are my all-time top, at least right now.

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Anyway, here are my favorites other than those...

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MALE:
1 . Tullio
2 . Cosimo
3 . Vasco
4 . Giotto
5 . Raul
6 . Maurizio
7 . Isidoro
8 . Loris
9 . Felice
10 . Danilo

FEMALE:
1 . Tullia
2 . Adelina
3 . Camilla
4 . Ludovica
5 . Mirella
6 . Fausta / Faustina
7 . Bianca
8 . Rosalba
9 . Sabrina
10 . Paolina


*Honorable mentions: Viviana, Vittoria, Gilda, Isidora, Clarissa, Cinzia, Maura, Giada, Dafne and Azzurra.

This message was edited 1/27/2015, 9:07 AM