What comes to your mind when you hear these names?

Livia - vagina
Clelia - clitoris
Lavinia - Miss Marple character
Virginia - beautiful, classic, understated

Bloody autocorrect, Alessandra!

Livia is the best for me, I love the way it sounds in Italian, have a good friend with that name, and Commissario Montalbano’s girlfriend was called Livia.
Other favourites are Alexandra, Isabella, and Iolanda.
Good luck, OP, I also chanaged my name to fit my background, and have never regretted it!

Livia - love. Only insular people will confuse with Olivia.

Clelia - does not work in the UK.

Lavinia - joke dated name. Reminds me of Joyce Grenfell. “Lavinia don’t copy him”

Virginia - also very dated. Invites virgin jokes. (Presumably why not used any more).

Italian names I like -

Cosima - old lady name in Italy but very chic here.
Raffaella
Serafina
Chiara
Viola

Livia - Like it. Also like Liv, but think both will seem like nicknames for Olivia, even though they're not.
Clelia - Celia, with a typo
Lavinia - character from an Agatha Christie novel. Upper class, stuffy...
Virginia - American state, Elizabeth I, virginity

Our Italian family girls mostly have names that Brits can pronounce pretty easily, including Marina, Fiammetta, Orlanda, Domitilla, Lucrezia, Benedetta, Amadea, and the rather beautiful medieval Parisina. Also one that is well known here is the name Lord Byron gave his daughter, Allegra, which I think was used more in the UK and US until gaining in popularity over the last few years in Italy. Just a few more ideas for you. I know what you mean about Italian names beginning with Gi - we have a Giuliana who is driven crazy by the way non-Italians say her name!

Livia- id assume a Nick name for Olivia.
Celia - never heard of it.
Lavinia- a Baltic nation
Virginia- Virginia Wade

Livia - I would think it’s short for Olivia. Both are nice.

Clelia- I’ve only heard of one person with this name. I like the sound of it but would imagine people would presume it’s Celia misspelt when reading it.

Lavinia- again I’ve only heard of one person with this name. Lavinia Kerwick was the first rape victim in Ireland to waive her right to anonymity. Amazing brave woman.

Love Livia
I used to work with a Clelia, who was an utter pain in the arse (and hideously posh) so this is a big no from me.
Lavinia - know two, both lovely.
Virginia - had a childhood friend called Virginia (Ginny) who died young. Like the name, also Ginny is a good shortening.

The tombstones of women who were born in the early 20th century.

Livia - like Olivia without the O
Clelia - my guess would have been cleh-lie-a, which is so far from how you've said it's pronounced.
Lavinia - any name with lav at the start makes me think of lavatory
Virginia - US states

I like Livia and Clelia, but I do find the latter slightly difficult to say — it’s the ‘Cl’ followed by another ‘l’. I liked the character in La Chartreuse de Parme. (Also, I have on several occasions been misidentified as an Irish soap actress called Clelia Murphy.)

Livia - you like Olivia but want to be different.
Clelia - people are going to mistype it as Celia in emails when she is older but I like it.
Lavinia - I like this but kids will probably call her Lav.
Virginia - she'll get teased for this one :(

No to Livia as everyone will hear Olivia, it will drive you nuts.

I love Clelia as it also makes me think of the character in Margaret Drabble’s Jerusalem The Golden. However I agree that the response on here probably tells you that you shouldn’t use it!

Lavinia - I know one - lovely. Goes by Vinnie. I would think that the ‘Lav’ association isn’t a problem once you’re out of the schoolyard, I would choose this.

Virginia - tobacco, American sounding (maybe because of Virginia Andrews) - not nice at all!

How about Sabina?

if you are in uk, most people will never have heard of the second one, and have no idea how to say it, and will probably think it is a typographical mistake. so a life time of expalinaing=tedious.
livia reminds me of the tv series, i claudius. she was unpleasant in that iirc.
lavinia, better than the previous two. but i can see problem re lav.
virginia, could give rise to ribaldry unfortunately, these days. but a good name essentially. a classic.
what about veronica if you like v. or lucinda if you like l.

Ugly names, I'm sorry.

Livia is lovely!

Clelia does looks like a typo to me too, even if it isn't.

*misspelling. That was ironic...

Livia is ok I think.

I would always think Clelia is a miss-spelling of Celia.

Lavinia is ok. There is the possibility of the unfortunate nickname "Lav", but do children really say "lavatory" or "lav" nowadays?

I wouldn't subject a girl to the name Virginia nowadays. It's a nice enough name in itself but you know what she'll be taunted with in secondary school.

Livia - nice! In England people might wrongly assume it was short for Olivia and yes, there are so many little Olivias around and also Olives
Clelia - oh sorry, this sounds medical or anatomical to me...
Lavinia - hmmmm reminds me of that horsey girl in a Jilly Cooper novel. She isn't a terrible character, just a bit posh and silly. If I met one IRL, I wouldn't think much of it, except that it is unusual for a baby these days. Not offensive.
Virginia - I have ties to the US state of the same name, so I think of that, then Woolf, then tobacco. Not bad associations (except maybe the tobacco). I like Ginny for short. It's very sweet but would suit a grown up as well as a little girl.

On balance, I think I like Virginia the best . Clelia is my least favourite.

Livia - nice but people would mishear as Olivia
Clelia- what? Celia mispelled.
Lavinia - an old lady I used to know, a right cow
Virginia - virgin, cigarettes

Hackneyed.

Usual middle-class parent thing trying to give their kids a posh name by using aristocratic Roman names. Easiest way to spot a fake...sorry.

Livia - Italian woman with a lovely smile and long curly hair

Clelia - some kind of thrush treatment or birth control (sorry OP)

Lavinia - wears too much perfume

Virginia - horsey girl who slums it by going to the local state school