Italian Names

The names listed here are used in Italy and other Italian-speaking regions. See also about Italian names.

ABELE   m   Italian
Italian form of ABEL

ACHILLE   m   French, Italian
French and Italian form of ACHILLES

ADA   f   English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Italian
Short form of ADELAIDE and other names beginning with the same sound... [more]

ADALBERTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Variant of ALBERTO

ADAMO   m   Italian
Italian form of ADAM

ADELAIDE   f   English, Italian
From the French form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, which was composed of the elements adal "noble" and heid "kind, sort, type"... [more]

ADELE   f   German, English, Italian, Finnish
Form of ADÈLE

ADELINA   f   Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, German, Finnish, Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Latinate diminutive of ADELA

ADOLFO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ADOLF

ADRIANA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, English
Feminine form of ADRIAN

ADRIANO   m   Italian, Portuguese
Italian and Portuguese form of ADRIAN

AGAPITO   m   Spanish, Italian
From the Late Latin name Agapitus or Agapetus which was derived from the Greek name Αγαπητος (Agapetos) meaning "beloved"... [more]

AGATA   f   Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Russian, Croatian
Cognate of AGATHA

AGNESE   f   Italian, Latvian
Italian and Latvian form of AGNES

AGOSTINA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of Augustinus (see AUGUSTINE (1)).

AGOSTINO   m   Italian
Italian form of Augustinus (see AUGUSTINE (1)).

ALBA   f   Italian, Spanish, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of ALBUS... [more]

ALBERTA   f   English, Italian, Polish
Feminine form of ALBERT... [more]

ALBERTINA   f   Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese
Feminine diminutive of ALBERT

ALBERTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ALBERT

ALBINA   f   Italian, Polish, Slovene, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of ALBINUS... [more]

ALDA (1)   f   Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Germanic
Feminine form of ALDO

ALDO   m   Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Germanic
Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element ald "old", and possibly also with adal "noble".

ALESSA   f   Italian
Short form of ALEXA

ALESSANDRA   f   Italian
Italian form of ALEXANDRA

ALESSANDRO   m   Italian
Italian form of ALEXANDER... [more]

ALESSIA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of ALEXIS

ALESSIO   m   Italian
Italian form of ALEXIS

ALFEO   m   Italian
Italian form of ALPHAEUS

ALFONSINA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of ALFONSO

ALFONSO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of a Visigothic Germanic name, probably meaning "noble and ready", from the element adal "noble" combined with funs "ready"... [more]

ALFREDA   f   Polish, German, Italian, English
Feminine form of ALFRED

ALFREDO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ALFRED

ALICE   f   English, French, Portuguese, Italian
From the Old French name Aalis, a short form of Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name Adalheidis (see ADELAIDE)... [more]

ALINA (2)   f   German, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Finnish
Diminutive of ADELINA and names that end in alina.

ALLEGRA   f   English (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Means "cheerful, lively" in Italian... [more]

ALONZO   m   Italian
Italian variant of ALFONSO

ALVISE   m   Italian
Venetian form of LOUIS

AMADEO   m   Italian
Italian variant of AMADEUS... [more]

AMALIA   f   Dutch, German, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Latinized form of the Germanic name Amala, a short form of names beginning with the element amal meaning "work".

AMANDA   f   English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Scandinavian, Dutch, German, Finnish, Late Roman
In part this is a feminine form of AMANDUS... [more]

AMANDO   m   Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Portuguese, Spanish and Italian form of AMANDUS

AMARANTA   f   Spanish (Rare), Italian (Rare)
Spanish and Italian form of AMARANTHA

AMATO   m   Italian
Italian form of AMATUS

AMBRA   f   Italian
Italian cognate of AMBER

AMBROGINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of AMBROGIO

AMBROGIO   m   Italian
Italian form of Ambrosius (see AMBROSE).

AMEDEA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of AMADEUS

AMEDEO   m   Italian
Italian form of AMADEUS... [more]

AMELIA   f   English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Ancient Germanic
Variant of AMALIA, though it is sometimes confused with EMILIA, which has a different origin... [more]

AMERIGO   m   Italian
Medieval Italian form of EMMERICH... [more]

AMILCARE   m   Italian
Italian form of HAMILCAR

AMPELIO   m   Italian
Italian form of Ampelius, the Latin form of the Greek name Αμπελιος (Ampelios), which was derived from αμπελος (ampelos) meaning "vine"... [more]

ANACLETO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ANACLETUS

ANASTASIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian form of ANASTASIUS

ANDREA (1)   m   Italian
Italian form of Andreas (see ANDREW)... [more]

ANDREINA   f   Italian
Feminine form of ANDREA (1)

ANGELA   f   English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Slovene, Slovak, Russian, Macedonian, Late Roman
Feminine form of Angelus (see ANGEL)... [more]

ANGELICA   f   English, Italian, Romanian, Literature
Derived from Latin angelicus meaning "angelic", ultimately related to Greek αγγελος (angelos) "messenger"... [more]

ANGELINA   f   Italian, English, Russian, German, Polish, Spanish, Macedonian
Latinate diminutive of ANGELA

ANGELINO   m   Italian, Spanish
Diminutive of ANGELO or ÁNGEL

ANGELO   m   Italian
Italian form of Angelus (see ANGEL).

ANNA   f   English, Italian, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Finnish, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Icelandic, Catalan, Provençal, Breton, Biblical, Old Church Slavic, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Form of Channah (see HANNAH) used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament... [more]

ANNABELLA   f   Italian, English (Modern)
Latinate form of ANNABEL... [more]

ANNALISA   f   Italian
Combination of ANNA and LISA

ANNETTA   f   Italian
Latinate diminutive of ANNA

ANNIBALE   m   Italian
Italian form of HANNIBAL

ANNUNCIATA   f   Italian
Variant of ANNUNZIATA

ANNUNZIATA   f   Italian
Means "annunciation" in Italian, referring to the event in the New Testament in which the angel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary of the imminent birth of Jesus.

ANNUNZIATO   m   Italian (Rare)
Masculine form of ANNUNZIATA

ANSELMA   f   German, Italian, Spanish
Feminine form of ANSELM

ANSELMO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ANSELM

ANTONELLA   f   Italian
Feminine diminutive of Antonius (see ANTHONY).

ANTONELLO   m   Italian
Diminutive of Antonius (see ANTHONY).

ANTONIA   f   Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Polish, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of Antonius (see ANTHONY).

ANTONIETTA   f   Spanish, Italian
Diminutive of ANTONIA

ANTONINA   f   Italian, Polish, Russian, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of Antoninus (see ANTONINO).

ANTONINO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Roman name Antoninus, which was derived from Antonius (see ANTHONY)... [more]

ANTONIO   m   Spanish, Italian, Croatian
Spanish and Italian form of Antonius (see ANTHONY)... [more]

ARCANGELO   m   Italian
Means "archangel" in Italian.

ARDUINO   m   Italian
Italian form of HARTWIN

ARIANNA   f   Italian
Italian form of ARIADNE

ARISTIDE   m   French, Italian
French and Italian form of ARISTIDES

ARMANDO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of HERMAN

ARMIDA   f   Italian, Spanish
Probably created by the 16th-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso for his epic poem 'Jerusalem Delivered' (1580)... [more]

ARNALDO   m   Italian
Italian form of ARNOLD

AROLDO   m   Italian
Italian form of HAROLD

ARRIGO   m   Italian
Italian form of HENRY

ARSENIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of ARSENIOS

ARTURO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ARTHUR

ASIA (1)   f   English (Modern), Italian (Modern)
From the name of the continent, which is perhaps derived from Akkadian asu, meaning "east".

ASSUNTA   f   Italian
Italian cognate of ASUNCIÓN

ATTILIO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Roman family name Atilius, which is of unknown Etruscan origin... [more]

AUGUSTA   f   German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, English, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of AUGUSTUS... [more]

AUGUSTO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of AUGUSTUS

AURELIA   f   Ancient Roman, Italian, Romanian, Polish
Feminine form of AURELIUS

AURELIANA   f   Italian, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of AURELIANUS

AURELIANO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of AURELIANUS

AURELIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of AURELIUS

AURORA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, Romanian, Finnish, Roman Mythology
Means "dawn" in Latin... [more]

AZZURRA   f   Italian
Means "azure, sky blue" in Italian.

BALDASSARE   m   Italian
Italian form of BALTHAZAR

BALDO   m   Italian
Short form of BALDOVINO, TEOBALDO and other names containing the Germanic element bald "bold, brave".

BALDOVINO   m   Italian
Italian form of BALDWIN

BARBARA   f   English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Late Roman
Derived from Greek βαρβαρος (barbaros) meaning "foreign"... [more]

BARTOLOMEO   m   Italian
Italian form of BARTHOLOMEW

BASILIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of BASIL (1)

BATTISTA   m   Italian
Italian form of BAPTISTE

BEATRICE   f   Italian, English
Italian form of BEATRIX... [more]

BENEDETTA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of BENEDICT

BENEDETTO   m   Italian
Italian form of BENEDICT

BENIAMINO   m   Italian
Italian form of BENJAMIN

BENIGNA   f   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Late Roman
Feminine form of BENIGNO

BENIGNO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Late Latin name Benignus which meant "kind, friendly" in Latin... [more]

BENITO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish form of BENEDICT... [more]

BENVENUTO   m   Italian
Means "welcome" in Italian... [more]

BEPPE   m   Italian
Diminutive of GIUSEPPE

BERENICE   f   English, Italian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Ancient Macedonian form of the Greek name Φερενικη (Pherenike), which meant "bringing victory" from φερω (phero) "to bring" and νικη (nike) "victory"... [more]

BERNARDETTA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of BERNARD

BERNARDINO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Diminutive of BERNARDO

BERNARDO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of BERNARD

BERTA   f   Polish, Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Italian, Slovene
Form of BERTHA

BERTOLDO   m   Italian
Italian form of BERTHOLD

BERTRANDO   m   Italian
Italian form of BERTRAND

BETTINA (2)   f   Italian
Diminutive of BENEDETTA

BETTINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of BENEDETTO

BIAGGIO   m   Italian
Variant of BIAGIO

BIAGINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of BIAGIO

BIAGIO   m   Italian
Italian form of BLAISE

BIANCA   f   Italian, Romanian
Italian cognate of BLANCHE... [more]

BIBIANA   f   Italian, Spanish, Late Roman
Possibly an early variant of VIVIANA... [more]

BICE   f   Italian
Short form of BEATRICE

BONAVENTURA   m   Italian
Means "good fortune" in Italian... [more]

BONIFACIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Bonifatius (see BONIFACE).

BRIGIDA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of BRIDGET

BRUNA   f   Italian, Portuguese
Feminine form of BRUNO

BRUNELLA   f   Italian
Feminine diminutive of BRUNO

BRUNILDA   f   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of BRUNHILD

BRUNO   m   German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Croatian, Ancient Germanic
Derived from the Germanic element brun meaning "brown"... [more]

CALLISTO (1)   m   Italian
Italian form of CALLISTUS

CALOGERA   f   Italian
Feminine form of CALOGERO

CALOGERO   m   Italian
From the Late Latin name Calogerus which meant "beautiful elder" from Greek καλος (kalos) "beautiful" and γερων (geron) "old man, elder"... [more]

CAMILLA   f   English, Italian, Scandinavian, Finnish, Ancient Roman, Roman Mythology
Feminine form of CAMILLUS... [more]

CAMILLO   m   Italian
Italian form of CAMILLUS

CARLA   f   Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, Dutch
Feminine form of CARLO, CARLOS or CARL

CARLO   m   Italian
Italian form of CHARLES

CARLOTTA   f   Italian
Italian form of CHARLOTTE

CARMELA   f   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CARMEL

CARMELO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian masculine form of CARMEL

CARMEN   f   Spanish, English, Italian, Romanian
Medieval Spanish form of CARMEL influenced by the Latin word carmen "song"... [more]

CARMINA   f   Italian, Spanish
Variant of CARMEN

CARMINE   m   Italian
Italian masculine form of CARMEN

CAROLA   f   Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish
Feminine form of CAROLUS

CAROLINA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Swedish
Latinate feminine form of CAROLUS... [more]

CASIMIRO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of CASIMIR

CATARINA   f   Italian, Portuguese, Galician
Italian, Portuguese and Galician form of KATHERINE

CATERINA   f   Italian, Catalan
Italian and Catalan form of KATHERINE

CECILIA   f   English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, German
Latinate feminine form of the Roman family name Caecilius, which was derived from Latin caecus "blind"... [more]

CECILIO   m   Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of Caecilius (see CECILIA).

CELESTE   f & m   Italian, English
Italian feminine and masculine form of CAELESTIS... [more]

CELESTINA   f   Spanish, Italian
Latinate feminine form of CAELESTINUS

CELESTINO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of CAELESTINUS

CELIA   f   English, Spanish, Italian
Feminine form of the Roman family name CAELIUS... [more]

CELINO   m   Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Italian and Spanish form of CAELINUS or a short form of MARCELINO.

CELIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of CAELIUS

CELSO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of CELSUS

CESARE   m   Italian
Italian form of CAESAR

CESARINA   f   Italian
Feminine diminutive of CESARE

CESARINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of CESARE

CHIARA   f   Italian
Italian form of CLARA... [more]

CHIARINA   f   Italian
Diminutive of CHIARA

CINZIA   f   Italian
Italian form of CYNTHIA

CIPRIANO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Cyprianus (see CYPRIAN).

CIRIACO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CYRIACUS

CIRILLO   m   Italian
Italian form of CYRIL

CIRINO   m   Italian, Spanish
Diminutive of CIRO

CIRO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CYRUS

CLARA   f   Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, English, Late Roman
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous"... [more]

CLARETTA   f   Italian
Diminutive of CLARA

CLARISSA   f   English, Italian, Portuguese
Latinate form of CLARICE

CLAUDIA   f   English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of CLAUDIUS... [more]

CLAUDIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CLAUDIUS

CLELIA   f   Italian
Italian form of CLOELIA

CLEMENTE   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Clemens (see CLEMENT).

CLEMENTINA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Feminine form of CLEMENT

CLETO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Short form of ANACLETO

CLIO   f   Greek Mythology (Latinized), Italian
Latinized form of KLEIO

COLOMBA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of COLUMBA

COLOMBANO   m   Italian
Italian form of COLUMBANUS

COLOMBINA   f   Italian
Italian feminine diminutive of COLUMBA... [more]

COLOMBO   m   Italian
Italian form of COLUMBA

CONCETTA   f   Italian
Italian cognate of CONCEPCIÓN

CONCETTINA   f   Italian
Diminutive of CONCETTA

CONCETTO   m   Italian
Masculine form of CONCETTA

CONSOLATA   f   Italian
Means "consolation" in Italian... [more]

CORNELIA   f   English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of CORNELIUS... [more]

CORNELIO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of CORNELIUS

CORRADO   m   Italian
Italian form of CONRAD... [more]

COSIMA   f   Italian
Italian feminine form of COSIMO

COSIMO   m   Italian
Italian variant of COSMAS... [more]

COSMA   m   Italian
Italian form of COSMAS

COSTANTINO   m   Italian
Italian form of Constantinus (see CONSTANTINE).

COSTANZO   m   Italian
Italian form of Constans (see CONSTANT).

CRESCENZO   m   Italian
Italian form of CRESCENTIUS

CRISTIANA   f   Italian, Portuguese
Italian and Portuguese form of CHRISTINA

CRISTIANO   m   Italian, Portuguese
Italian and Portuguese form of CHRISTIAN

CRISTINA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian form of CHRISTINA

CRISTOFORO   m   Italian
Italian form of CHRISTOPHER

CROCETTA   f   Italian
Diminutive of CROCIFISSA

CROCIFISSA   f   Italian
Means "crucifix" in Italian.

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