Italian boy names

[j1ulian147]

I’m pregnant again! Yay!
I’m too early in pregnancy to know if I’ll be having a boy or a girl but I have girl names covered.

I already have a son, his name is Alessio. I want to keep the Italian theme going (I’m from Sicily originally & my husband is from Venezuela— Italian names translate well into Spanish & English) but I’m having a hard time finding other Italian boy names I like.

Any suggestions welcome

Congratulations!

I know a boy with an Italian mum called Valentino, always think it sounds so lovely and grand and romantic. He does often get Val though which I don't like so much.

Enzo short for Vincenzo
I love Alejandro if you fancied a Spanish name this time

Not with Alessio. It would be like having Alexis and Alexander.

Vito

The Enzos I know are Lorenzo

I like Tomaso, Giovanni and Eduardo

Raffaele
Luciano ( Luca for short ? )
Matteo
Francesco

Massimo

Came on to say Alessio!

Luca is probably too obvious but definitely a classic.

I know a Vincenzo who is known as Enzo. Agree that Alessio and Alejandro are the same name basically.

I love Tobia, Enea and Elia if you like the a sound as I do, but you probably want the o to match with Alessio.

Giacomo, Tommaso, Leonardo (but people in Britain will likely say Lee-onardo), Damiano, Sebastiano

I like Luciano but people might pronounce it Lucy-ano unless they are familiar with Pavarotti

Lorenzo - love that and it's on my future pet names list!

Luca is lovely

We loved Carlo & Giovanni (Gio for short)

Names like Leonardo will get said as Lee-o-nardo and names like Giacomo will get said as Gee-a-como.
The Gi- bit will mean misspellings.
Any thread on Giulia will have a few Guilia posts.

-a names (Andrea, Nicola, Elia...) look feminine in the UK, as do -ele (Rafaele, Michele...) names.

Duarte is nice but not the Doo-ar-tay you'd get in in the UK.

Luca
Matteo
Marco
Dario

Congratulations! 🙂

Caiu
Alfio/ Alfiu
Bruno

I know brothers Alberto, Lorenzo and Luciano which I think are all lovely Italian boys names.

Ludovico

Gianni

Eduardo (is that right? I'm a Spanish speaker)

Nico

Big soft spot for Luca too

Yes, and Andrea will be called Andy by everyone, Nicola becomes Nick or Nicky

Alberto is lovely and ticks both Spanish and Italian boxes!

I should have said that the Duarte would be a non-rhotic Doo-ar-tay.

Andrea will be AND-ree-uh not and-REY-ah, Nicola NIC-uh-luh, Alberto, al-BUR-toe etc

Andreas would fare better

Marco
Peter
Victor
Eduard
Michael

Absolutely love the name Luca and wish I had used it. It’s gorgeous but works all round!

I think only Marco is Italian out of that list?

Why the question mark?

Marco
Pietro
Vittorio
Edoardo
Michele

Luca
Lorenzo
Niccolo
Giovanni
Vito
Benedetto
Giuseppe
Girolamo
Antonio
Dante
Lodovico
Dario
Mario
Carlo
Donato
Silvio
Luigi
Stefano
Marco
Paolo
Francesco
Federico
Riccardo
Enrico

I think those could all work here.

Steer clear of
Andrea
Simone
Daniele
Gabriele

as those spellings equates to English girls' names which will potentially lead to confusion.