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Italian 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 uncertain Italian

Rankings for

698 names, most popular first in United States

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Aria Aria is a girl's name with two separate origins. In Italian it means "air" and names the solo vocal piece at the heart of an opera.
Girl Italian #26 in US
Gianna Gianna is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "God is gracious."
Girl Italian #33 in US
Enzo Enzo is a boy's name of Italian origin whose derivation is disputed.
Boy Italian #72 in US
Sienna Sienna is a girl's name from the Italian city of Siena, and by way of it from the reddish-brown earth pigment mined nearby.
Girl Italian #94 in US
Bella Bella is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "beautiful."
Girl Italian #136 in US
Gia Gia is a girl's name, the Italian short form of Gianna, meaning God is gracious.
Girl Italian #287 in US
Angelo Angelo means messenger, and it charts in all seven markets we track within a 365-place spread — the United States 304th, France 343rd, Northern Ireland 397th, Scotland 522nd, England and Wales 569th and Ireland 669th.
Boy Italian #304 in US
Francesca Francesca is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "free one" or "Frenchwoman."
Girl Italian #307 in US
Dante Dante means enduring, and it is a nickname that outlived its full form — the poet was christened Durante, and almost nobody has used that name since, while the short version became international.
Boy Italian #308 in US
Viviana Viviana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "alive".
Girl Italian #331 in US
Angelina Angelina means little angel, and the Greek root behind it means a messenger — the winged being is a later idea layered onto a word for someone carrying news.
Girl Italian #347 in US
Santino Santino is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "little saint".
Boy Italian #353 in US
Adriana Adriana means from Hadria, a small town in northern Italy that also named the Adriatic Sea — so both the name and the sea are called after a settlement most people have never heard of.
Girl Italian #366 in US
Marco Marco means dedicated to Mars, and it has the tightest seven-market spread on this site — the United States 370th, Ireland and England both 467th, Scotland 477th, Northern Ireland 501st and France 502nd, all inside 132 places.
Boy Italian #370 in US
Elio Elio is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "sun," from the Greek helios.
Boy Italian #388 in US
Leandro Leandro is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "lion-man," borne by a lover who drowned swimming a strait to reach her.
Boy Italian #406 in US
Lucca Lucca is a boy's name taken from the walled Tuscan city, and used as a variant spelling of Luca, the Italian form of Luke.
Boy Italian #425 in US
Mario Mario is a boy's name from a Roman family name of uncertain meaning, and the video game character was named after a real landlord — Mario Segale, who owned the warehouse Nintendo rented in Seattle.
Boy Italian #438 in US
Sergio Sergio means servant, from a Roman family name that is probably Etruscan — and Virgil gave the Sergii a Trojan ancestor, which is the Aeneid doing genealogical work for Rome's aristocracy.
Boy Italian #441 in US
Lorelei Peaked in 2016 · 21,580 births since 1916
Girl Italian #441 in US
Alessandra Peaked in 2015 · 28,014 births since 1943
Girl Italian #444 in US
Elisa Elisa means my God is an oath, shortened from Elizabeth, and France ranks it 202nd — its strongest market, ahead of England and Wales at 377th, Ireland at 382nd and the United States at 458th.
Girl Italian #458 in US
Armani Armani is a unisex name of Italian origin, a surname meaning "son of Armanno" — a Germanic name built from elements for army and man.
Unisex Italian #495 in US
Alessandro Peaked in 2025 · 20,180 births since 1933
Boy Italian #497 in US
Bianca Bianca means white, and France ranks it 242nd — ahead of Ireland at 373rd, the United States at 501st, England and Wales at 548th and Scotland at 742nd.
Girl Italian #501 in US
Gianni Gianni is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the Italian short form of Giovanni.
Unisex Italian #523 in US
Romina Peaked in 2024 · 8,022 births since 1951
Girl Italian #532 in US
Roberto Roberto means bright fame, the Italian and Spanish form of Robert, and both halves of the compound mean roughly the same thing — which is normal in Germanic naming rather than a redundancy.
Boy Italian #569 in US
Loretta Loretta comes from an Italian shrine, not from the laurel — Loreto is the town where the Holy House of Nazareth was said to have been carried by angels.
Girl Italian #606 in US
Siena Peaked in 2018 · 14,480 births since 1965
Girl Italian #610 in US
Gustavo Gustavo has no settled meaning, and the two accounts disagree on the language — a Norse staff of the Geats, or a Slavic name reshaped by Swedish, and neither has carried the field.
Boy Italian #626 in US
Arturo Arturo means bear, probably — but Arthur is one of the genuinely unsolved names, with a Celtic word for bear and a Roman family name both proposed and neither established.
Boy Italian #627 in US
Galilea Peaked in 2016 · 9,309 births since 1993
Girl Italian #648 in US
Vincenzo Peaked in 2025 · 14,808 births since 1900
Boy Italian #674 in US
Gerardo Gerardo means brave with a spear, and both halves are weapons talk — the Germanic joins the word for a spear to one meaning hardy, which is the same ger that hides inside garlic.
Boy Italian #678 in US
Aurelio Peaked in 2025 · 9,569 births since 1904
Boy Italian #682 in US
Dario Peaked in 2024 · 17,253 births since 1909
Boy Italian #761 in US
Alvaro Peaked in 2000 · 18,646 births since 1914
Boy Italian #777 in US
Alberto Alberto means bright nobility, and both halves are compliments — the Germanic joins a word for noble descent to one meaning bright or famous, with nothing descriptive about the person at all.
Boy Italian #820 in US
Alfredo Alfredo means counsel of the elves, and the elves were taken seriously — Anglo-Saxon naming treated them as beings whose advice was worth invoking, not as decoration for a children's story.
Boy Italian #822 in US
Alessio Alessio is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "defender," the Italian form of Alexis.
Boy Italian #869 in US
Orlando Orlando is Roland with its consonants swapped — Italian moved the r, and the hero of the Song of Roland became the hero of Orlando Furioso, the same man under a rearranged name.
Boy Italian #873 in US
Ernesto Ernesto means serious in the deadly sense — the Germanic eornost named vigor in a fight, and the modern in earnest still keeps that force, meaning for real rather than in play.
Boy Italian #879 in US
Giovanna Peaked in 2005 · 17,255 births since 1904
Girl Italian #880 in US
Marcello Peaked in 2025 · 7,921 births since 1912
Boy Italian #900 in US
Giuliana Peaked in 2012 · 14,992 births since 1958
Girl Italian #915 in US
Massimo Peaked in 2023 · 7,847 births since 1963
Boy Italian #937 in US
Salvatore Salvatore means savior, and it is a title rather than a description — Italian Catholic families gave it as a devotional name naming Christ's role directly, in the way Spanish families use Jesús.
Boy Italian #947 in US

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