Italian boy names

[thelittlepeanut]

Suggestions for Italian boy names please

Marco, Francesco, Paolo, Antonio, Carlo, Mauro, Joey, Mauricio, Bartolo

Enzo

Luca?

I like Luca, Rafael, Gio and Leonardo (Leo)

Fabian

Alessio
Matteo
Alessandro
Stefano
Paolo

Joey? Maybe in an American gangster movie. It would be Giuseppe in Italian (and is pretty old-fashioned) Maurizio. Vincenzo Raffaele, Giovanni. Fabiano (rare as a first name, it's a surname)

Luca has been in the top 10 for years now, very popular.

Many Italian boys are still named after granddad so Antonio, Francesco etc still used a lot.

Strangely, not so many "new" names have crept into Italian boy names, unlike girls' ones.

Quite popular these days for compound names: Piergiorgio, Gianluca etc. Always get shortened to Pier, or Lu though.

Alessio would be my choice!

Andrea, Michele, Daniele, Elia

I like Luca, Leonardo(Leo), Francesco, Andrea (and-ray-ah)

Eduardo!?

Nico

Diego Antonio (that's my little boy's name)

Enzo is old man, it can be an abbreviation for Lorenzo (nowadays more commonly abbreviated to Lori) and Vincenzo but not used much for anyone under 50.

If your family is from the south you might get away with grandad names like Giuseppe, Cosimo, Salvatore, but not many of these without the southern connection. Except for Cosimo which is still used in Florence.

Luca is an extremely common name, although more recently there have been fewer. It used to be the case when you called it out in a park 10 little boys would turn around to see who was calling them. Also if you’re in the U.K. bear in mind how it will get pronounced.

Out of my friends and acquaintances who have had babies in the last 5 years we have:

Vittorio
Giorgio
Piergiorgio (from a grandad)
Giulio
Edoardo
Achille
Elia
Christian

Matteo
Rafael
Riccardo
Samuel
Gabriele

Lorenzo

Santino.

He could be sonny for short. It means little saint.

Raffaele can be Raffa so I like that. Nico and Ricco easy for non italians.

Some names just sound too feminine to work here. Andrea, Gabriele, Nicola, Daniele

What about Domenico? I like that.

Like Vitto as well.

Giona (Jonah)

Does it need to work in Italy? Or just in the UK?
I love Cosimo, Vito, Salvatore, Rocco, Rafaele, Santo, etc but they are old fashioned (and not in a good way) or have very specific regional associations in Italy. .
Michele/ Gabriele/ Andrea/ Nicola/ Daniele get mistaken for girls' names in English.
From experience, Gi names like Giacomo, Giovanni etc get mispronounced constantly in English, they're nice though.

Names of little Italian boys I know:
Francesco
Lorenzo
Alessandro
Leonardo
Amadeo
Matteo
Pietro
Luca
Alessio
Vittorio
Federico
Tommaso

Alessandro
Leonardo

Some really good suggestions - thanks for your input everyone! Needs to work in both italy and the UK as we have family in both countries.

I love Luca but is it too common? Maybe less so in the UK. Also I like Lorenzo, Enzo for short. I really like Leo on its own but I can't get on board with Leonardo for some reason lol!

Agree that some names sound too feminine with the English pronunciation and also the mispronunciations can become annoying.

Naming a human is NOT easy!

I know of a baby Gennaro. I like Luca, Rafael and Rocco.

Love Enzo

..and in Italy ( or at least where my DHs family are from - its the trend to give english names. A cousin has an Angela and an Albert.