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HelpRe: Some Italian names
in reply to a message by Lily
I'm Italian born and bred, so I'm a bit biased towards the category. If I ever have kids they'll have Italian names or in an Italian form. For the ones you mention:
Giada this is indeed slightly tacky but not terrible either. Definitely a "young" name, and not very common.
Aurora not very common for any age.
Raffaella this is a classic, but not super-common either. Can be found in any age (I think a lot of names don't die out for the practice of naming children after grandparents).
Liliana not very common, maybe more widespread for middle-aged women-
Alessia common-ish for women under 30, uncommon for older women.
Daniela or Daniella (which spelling would be used in Italy?)Daniela is the preferred form. It's common-ish for women in their 20s and 30s, not so much older ones.
Arianna Also common-ish for women in their early 30s and 20s, pratically unheard of for older women.
Alessandra common for under 30s or so as well and not so much for older women.
Francesca (would this be dated?)this is my name, and it's really, really popular. It was relatively rare before the late 1970s (ironically, that's why my parents picked it). You'd imagine it would be considered dated by now, but bafflingly it's still used quite a lot on baby girls.
Except Aurora,Giada, Liliana and partly Raffaella, these feel like quite typical names of my generation (I'm 30).
Frustratingly, I've never been able to find Italian popularity lists. The closest I could get to is this: http://www.nomix.it/classifiche.php No idea how reliable it is.
Giada this is indeed slightly tacky but not terrible either. Definitely a "young" name, and not very common.
Aurora not very common for any age.
Raffaella this is a classic, but not super-common either. Can be found in any age (I think a lot of names don't die out for the practice of naming children after grandparents).
Liliana not very common, maybe more widespread for middle-aged women-
Alessia common-ish for women under 30, uncommon for older women.
Daniela or Daniella (which spelling would be used in Italy?)Daniela is the preferred form. It's common-ish for women in their 20s and 30s, not so much older ones.
Arianna Also common-ish for women in their early 30s and 20s, pratically unheard of for older women.
Alessandra common for under 30s or so as well and not so much for older women.
Francesca (would this be dated?)this is my name, and it's really, really popular. It was relatively rare before the late 1970s (ironically, that's why my parents picked it). You'd imagine it would be considered dated by now, but bafflingly it's still used quite a lot on baby girls.
Except Aurora,Giada, Liliana and partly Raffaella, these feel like quite typical names of my generation (I'm 30).
Frustratingly, I've never been able to find Italian popularity lists. The closest I could get to is this: http://www.nomix.it/classifiche.php No idea how reliable it is.
This message was edited 1/28/2010, 6:04 AM
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