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Italian Names

In Italy the name format is usually written as given name first then the surname. But in any cases, the surname is written before the surname. This may happen in some cases like important documents or on documents that already has a label on how or to where you are going to put your names. But the standard form of writing an Italian name is the given name is written first and then the surname.

Italian names today are not only heard and used in Italy anymore, due to its elegant and fascinating sound and their meanings they are also used in other parts of the worlds like, Rome, Germany and Norway for that matter. They may sound odd and funny to others but Italian names are elegant to hear.




Most Italian male names usually end with specific letters to make it sound more masculine. Here are some examples of names which end in specified letters with their corresponding examples:

-e and –o


Alcide
Amilcare
Dante
Ottone
Davide
Emanuele
Felice
Carmine
Clemente
Giosuè
Giuseppe
Leone
Michele
Ercole
Ettore
Pasquale
Amintore
Astorre
Raffaele
Leone
Cesare
Salomone
Salvatore
Gabriele
Gaspare
Samuele
Simone
Baldassare
Beppe
Daniele
Achille
Scipione
Gastone
Gentile
Aimone
Alceste
Leone
Ulisse
Annibale
Oddone
Vitale
Aristotele
Vittore



-i
Gianni
Luigi
Dionigi
Neri
Giovanni
Ranieri
Nanni

-a
Elia
Nicola
Mattia
Andrea
Evangelista
Enea
Luca
Battista


There are also Italian names that originated in other countries and just reached Italy because of immigrants that may use them as names; they also end in consonant letters like Oscar, Loris, Igor, Walter/Valter, Ivan, and Christian/Cristian.
On the female’s side, their names usually end in –a, –e and –i examples are like Adele, Irene, Alice, Beatrice, Berenice, Geltrude, Agnese, Matilde, Rachele, Noemi, Adelaide.

Among all the names listed, there are just a few of them which are selected to be used commonly. Here are the names that are regularly used: for the male we have Antonio, Luigi, Giuseppe, Francesco, Mario and Giovanni while for the females we have Anna, Maria, Giovanna, Rosa, and Giuseppina and Angela. These names may not be popularly used nowadays.

All these Italian names are not just made up, yes maybe others are combined, but these are entirely not just names they have meanings! Here are some Italian names with their meanings:

Name                                     Meaning
Adriana                                  Form of Adrienne
Alessandra                             Form of Alexandra
Anna                                      Gracious
Bianca, Blanca                       White
Camellia                                Evergreen Tree
Camilla                                  Form of Camille
Capri, Caprice                         Fanciful
Carina                                    Dear Little One
Carlotta                                  Form of Charlotte
Chiara                                    Form of Clara
Clarice                                    Form of Clara
Clarissa                                  Form of Clara
Concetta                                 Pure
Daniela                                   Form of Danielle
Donna                                    Lady
Emilia                                    Form of Amelia
Filomena                                                Form of Philomena
Francesca                               Form of Frances which means Free
Gabriela                                Form of Gabrielle which means Devoted to God
Gema                                     Jewel
Gianna                                   Form of Giovanna
Gina                                       Short for Angelina
Giovanna                                               Form of Jane
Isabella                                  Form of Isabel
Jovanna                                  Form of Giovanna
Lucia                                      Form of Lucy which means Light
Maria                                     Form of Mary
Marietta                                Form of Marie
Michele                                  Form of Michaela
Mila                                       Short for Camilla
Paola                                      Form of Paula
Pia                                          Devout
Rosa                                       Form of Rose
Rosetta                                  Form of Rose
Speranza                                Form of Esperanza
Venecia                                  From Venice
Zola                                        Piece of Earth

Have you noticed that Italian names are very similar to Roman names? It is because the romans were the ones that influenced the names of the Italians. They have carried so little names a long them that Italian tend to use and better yet formulate their own names. Others are from the things all around them and just added some suffixes to make it sound like name for people, while others were derived from the names of classical movies and theater leading roles.