Italian Boy Names
Italian keeps the shape of Latin more visibly than any other Romance language, so its names often look like the ancestor rather than a descendant. Its diminutives do the heavy lifting: the affectionate ending is so productive that several Italian names in general use began as pet forms and never went back.
Languages behind these names
Latin
Greek
Germanic
Hebrew
Italian
84 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in the United States