DD is being born tomorrow.... vote for your favourite Italian name.

[HeadFairy]

We're drowning in suggestions so if anyone has a standout favourite Italian girl's name, please tell me what it is!!

Oooh Carmela is lovely too...

Rosaria

Italian friends dd is Beatrice, works well over here, but they pronounce it Bee-tret-chay, which sounds beautiful

oops I thought you were. My phonetics are not great either tbh it's just that I had to practice them when ordering Nursery Rhymes cds for dds .

I was going to suggest Beatrice as well but then I imagine the continous having to correct everybody when they call you by the english way.

Giulia?

Rosetta.

Didn't know it was Italian. Have a friend named Rosetta and she's so beautiful (and cooks!)

Antonella.

I thought that Aurelia was french rather than italian ?

Chiara is lovely.

Francesca shortened to Frankie these days too. Love it.

Ha! dh has just said he's veering back to Chiara now... what middle name would you put with that? To complicate matters further middle name can be French - I have a French grandmother, or Spanish - my mum was born in Argentina. Anything Latin basically!

Hi Head
I like francesca and chiara - not so mad on giovanna either
also like viola and violetta
i am jealous too of your bona fide ital connections. my DP'S surname is almost norse sounding it's so anglo saxon and therefore anything 'exotic' just wouldn't go...

No idea on French names I am afraid. My brain cannot do French. I have a blockage everytime I try to pronouce anything in French.

Elvie?

neve meaning 'snow'

Ah what about Fiamma? I loved it for dd2 but only thought about it after she was born and named.

Fabiola

I used to know a Ricci and a Mirra

Like Chiara.

What about Elise as a middle name.

Aurelia is name of my Italian niece.

Nobody has mentionned Mia??

Chiara Marie
Chiara Sophie

Love Elisabetta, very elegant. And I have an Isabella (Bella) so I love that too.

Sophia

Chiara Francesca is lovely.

Francesca is shortened to Chessy in one of Jilly Cooper's books, I find that pretty.

Silvana is terrible, everyone would think that she was named after Berlusconi.

Not good.

Lidia or Silvia

can't do the accents on my laptop.

Chiara Elise is nice....

Chiara and Aurelia are beautiful. I love Isabella. sooo many lovely names, should have married an italian.....

Can't do Isabella, it's my sisters dd2's name... Italian girls names are nice aren't they? I could just have easily plumped for an Argentine/Spanish name which are also really nice but we thought as ds has an Italian name it might be nice to keep to the Italian theme.

Chiara Elise is very nice I agree. You should go for this.

Elisa being the italian version.

Forgot about Livia or Lilia or Liana or Giuliana.

Mia sounds italian but I was told it is actually scandinavian, short for Maria.