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Italian boys name!

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Stilldreamingofsun · 02/10/2016 17:12

DH has already said no to Matteo and Luca 😫. Any ideas for an Italian boy name that works in U.K. also? We have Francesca and Alessia picked out for a girl..

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VioletBam · 02/10/2016 17:21

Why Italian? That's quite limiting.

pinkegg11 · 02/10/2016 17:21

Dante
Mario

SheStoodInTheStorm · 02/10/2016 17:22

Veto

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 02/10/2016 17:36

Renato

treetops104 · 02/10/2016 17:39

Cristiano

Amalfimamma · 02/10/2016 17:41

Antonio
Dario
Mattia
Alfonso
Vincenzo
Lorenzo
Sergio
Alessandro
Carmine
Salvatore
Giuseppe

Rumtopf · 02/10/2016 17:44

Luca is my personal favourite.
How about Arturro, Benitto, Leno, Carmello, Frederico.

ByAllMeansMoveAtAGlacialPace · 02/10/2016 17:44

Massimo
Carlo
Domenico
Stefano
Gianni/gianluca
Enzo
Antonio
Lorenzo
Piero
Giannbattista
Salvatore
Vincenzo
Vito
Santino

TheVirginQueen · 02/10/2016 17:45

Niccolò

Honeybee79 · 02/10/2016 21:46

My nephew is Giorgio. SIL is British, BIL is Italian and in the Italian armed forces, so they will move around a fair amount and wanted something that would work in English and Italian.

Amalfimamma · 02/10/2016 21:55

ByAllMeansMoveAtAGlacialPace

I love Santino but was banned from using it on DS.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/10/2016 22:06

Alessandro is lovely. Lots of the others are too. Are there Italian connections in your family? If so, can you get them to say if any of your suggested names are out of fashion? I'm thinking of cases where you might choose a name that will have modern Italians falling about laughing - the equivalent to calling a British baby Gary or Sharon, for example.

One that I don't think has been mentioned yet: Ludovico, Ludo for short.

Honeybee79 · 02/10/2016 22:10

Also, I had two lovely school friends called Claudio and Fabio.

StrawberryQuik · 02/10/2016 22:11

Small Italian boys I know (all under 10s, so no Italian 'Gary's' etc)

Lorenzo
Gabriele
Francesco
Enzo

chinlo · 02/10/2016 22:12

Furio

Amalfimamma · 02/10/2016 22:14

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

most of the names mentioned are used today in Italy. But you do raise a good point.

OP do you have any Italian connections? Here the DD1 and DS1 are normally named after maternal GM and Paternal GF to show "respect" and to carry on the name.

Soozikinzi · 02/10/2016 22:17

Rosario

devilinmyshoes · 02/10/2016 22:17

Did someone say Benito? 😮😂

Amalfimamma · 02/10/2016 22:19

devilinmyshoes

I know about 7 of them. All under 18 so not a Gary and surpisingly from left wing families.

devilinmyshoes · 02/10/2016 22:23

Not Benedetto or Benuto or something?

Oriunda · 02/10/2016 22:23

Cosmo - my DH is Italian and FIL is Cosimo. Nice compromise and works well in both languages.

DoloresVanCartier · 02/10/2016 22:25

I've always loved Rafaele

datingbarb · 02/10/2016 22:27

Gianni my all time fav Italian name

jesterkat · 02/10/2016 22:28

Paulo, Guilio, Stefano, Carlo

PurplePidjin · 02/10/2016 22:28

I wanted Santiago but wasn't quite brave enough

Luca, Vito, Enzo, Sebastian, Rafael... or have a look through the football teams in Serie A?

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