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Every time I think this name, I think of gestapo. I have no reasoning, it just is. I probably read a book with that name in those times. Still, it’s enough for me not to name my child that.
With 1 833 134 bearers, Giuseppe is the 2nd most common masculine given name in Italy (2014 Data).Source: https://forebears.io/forenames/giuseppe
For English, It’s pronounced (Giuseppei) not (giuseppi)
I love the name Giuseppe; it's one of my favourite masculine names.
For me, this is a very patriotic name; in Italy, we had many historical figures named Giuseppe, including one of my favourite historical figures, Giuseppe Garibaldi, as well as Giuseppe Mazzini or Giuseppe Verdi. The name Giuseppe is the Italian variation of Joseph, so it has religious significance as well.
The name Giuseppe had always been very popular; in fact, it's the most common name within the total male population of Italy. I have family members and friends named Giuseppe, and they're great people.
I'll always have positive associations with this name.
Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian composer.
The name Giuseppe was given to 79 boys born in the US in 2016.
I'm Italian and in my country it's one of the most used names in history. For example Giuseppe Garibaldi is a famous bearer of this name. It has also a lot of nicknames in Italian: Beppe, Beppino, Bepi, Peppe, Peppino, Peppo, Pino, Pinuccio, Geppo, Geppe, Geppi, Geppino, Geppetto, Giuse', Giusi, Seppe.
A diminutive of Giuseppe is Geppetto, the name of the impoverished woodcarver in Carlo Collodi's "The Adventures of Pinocchio".
The name Giuseppe was given to 88 baby boys born in the US in 2012.
Famous bearer is Giuseppe Zanotti, a Master Italian cobbler (shoemaker) who started the sucessful and high-end label Giuseppe Zanotti in 1994.
American rower Giuseppe Lanzone (born 1982).
Verdi's full name was Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi.
Giuseppe Sarto was the birthname of Pope Pius X (Pontificate between 1903-1914).
Nothing says you're Italian like the name Giuseppe.:p
If you named your children Giuseppe and Margherita, they would end up being known as the pizza kids.
Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640) was an Italian Mannerist painter.
Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and painter who settled in China in 1715 and worked for 3 successive emperors.
Giuseppe Bibiena (1696-1757) was a member of the dynasty Bibiena (or Galli-Bibiena) which was a family of Italian architects, quadraturisti and stage designers.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a Milanese painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of fruit.
This name sounds like a very fat jolly man. Keep in mind that doesn't mean I don't like it. Haha.
A somewhat unfortunate connotation of this name-
Giuseppe Zangara, who tried to shoot U.S. President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, and wound up killing the mayor of Chicago because he misfired. (He's mentioned as one of the assassins in Sondheim's musical 'Assassins' because of this.)
I think this is a great name, even though it is easily recognizable as Italian. Very cool.
Famous bearer is Giuseppe Verdi, an Italian opera composer.
Joe Dimaggio was known as Giuseppe in his home.

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