Behind the Name: Italian Names

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
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
Means "dawn" in Italian or Spanish.

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

ALBERTINA f Italian, German, 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 (see ALBIN)... [more]

ALDA f Italian, Portuguese
Feminine form of ALDO

ALDO m Italian, Portuguese
Originally an Italian short form of Germanic names beginning with the elements ald "old" or adal "noble".

ALESSA f Italian
Italian form of ALEXA

ALESSANDRA f Italian
Italian feminine form of ALEXANDER

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 Alis, a short form of Adelais, itself a short form of the Germanic name Adalheidis (see ADELAIDE)... [more]

ALINA (2) f German, Italian, Polish, Romanian
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

ALPHONSO m 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
Latinized form of the Germanic name Amal, a short form of names beginning with the element amal meaning "work".

AMANDA f English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish
Created in the 17th century by the playwright Colley Cibber, who based it on Latin amanda meaning "lovable, worthy of love"... [more]

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

AMARANTA f Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of AMARANTHA... [more]

AMATO m Italian
From the Late Latin name Amatus which meant "beloved"... [more]

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
Variant of AMALIA, though it is sometimes confused with EMILIA, which has a different origin... [more]

AMERIGO m Italian
Medieval Italian form of Amalric (see EMMERICH) or Heimiric (see HENRY)... [more]

AMINTA f Italian
Derived from Greek αμυντωρ (amyntor) meaning "defender"... [more]

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
Italian form of ANASTASIUS

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

ANDREINA f Italian
Feminine form of ANDREA (1)

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

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

ANGELINA f Italian, English, Russian, Polish
Latinate diminutive of ANGELA

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, Breton, Biblical
Latinate form of HANNAH... [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

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.

ANSELMA f German, Dutch, 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
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
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

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

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
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

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 BALTAZAR

BALDOVINO m Italian
Italian form of BALDWIN

BARBARA f English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovene
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
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 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 BERTRAM

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
Variant of VIVIANA

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 diminutive 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
Means "brown" from Germanic... [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]

CALVINO m Italian
Italian form of CALVIN

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
Diminutive of CARLA

CARMELA f Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CARMEL

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

CARMINA f Italian, Spanish
Variant of CARMEN influenced by the Latin word carminis "of song".

CARMINE m Italian
Italian masculine form of CARMEL influenced by the Latin word carminis "of song".

CAROLINA f Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
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
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 (see CELIO)... [more]

CELINO m Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of the Roman family name Caelinus, which was itself derived from the Roman family name Caelius (see CELIO).

CELIO m Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman family name Caelius, which meant "heaven" from Latin caelum.

CELSO m Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman family name Celsus, which meant "tall" in Latin.

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
Feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous"... [more]