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Italian Masculine 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

ADALBERTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Variant of ALBERTO

ADAMO   m   Italian
Italian form of ADAM

ADOLFO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ADOLF

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]

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

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

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".

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

ALESSIO   m   Italian
Italian form of ALEXIS

ALFEO   m   Italian
Italian form of ALPHAEUS

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]

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

ALONZO   m   Italian
Italian variant of ALFONSO

ALVISE   m   Italian
Venetian form of LOUIS

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

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

AMATO   m   Italian
Italian form of AMATUS

AMBROGINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of AMBROGIO

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

AMEDEO   m   Italian
Italian form of AMADEUS... [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
Italian form of ANASTASIUS

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

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

ANNIBALE   m   Italian
Italian form of HANNIBAL

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

ANTONELLO   m   Italian
Diminutive of Antonius (see ANTHONY).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BENEDETTO   m   Italian
Italian form of BENEDICT

BENIAMINO   m   Italian
Italian form of BENJAMIN

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

BERNARDINO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Diminutive of BERNARDO

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

BERTOLDO   m   Italian
Italian form of BERTHOLD

BERTRANDO   m   Italian
Italian form of BERTRAND

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

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

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

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

CALLISTO (1)   m   Italian
Italian form of CALLISTUS

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]

CAMILLO   m   Italian
Italian form of CAMILLUS

CARLO   m   Italian
Italian form of CHARLES

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

CARMINE   m   Italian
Italian masculine form of CARMEN

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

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]

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

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

CESARINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of CESARE

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

CLAUDIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of CLAUDIUS

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

CLETO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Short form of ANACLETO

COLOMBANO   m   Italian
Italian form of COLUMBANUS

COLOMBO   m   Italian
Italian form of COLUMBA

CONCETTO   m   Italian
Masculine form of CONCETTA

CORNELIO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of CORNELIUS

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

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

CRISTIANO   m   Italian, Portuguese
Italian and Portuguese form of CHRISTIAN

CRISTOFORO   m   Italian
Italian form of CHRISTOPHER

DAMIANO   m   Italian
Italian form of DAMIAN

DANIELE   m   Italian
Italian form of DANIEL

DANILO   m   Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian
Cognate of DANIEL

DANTE   m   Italian
Medieval short form of DURANTE... [more]

DARIO   m   Italian
Italian form of DARIUS

DAVIDE   m   Italian
Italian form of DAVID

DEMETRIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of DEMETRIUS

DESIDERIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of DESIDERIUS

DINO   m   Italian
Short form of names ending in dino.

DIONISIO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of DIONYSIUS

DOMENICO   m   Italian
Italian form of DOMINIC... [more]

DONATELLO   m   Italian
Diminutive of DONATO... [more]

DONATO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
From the Late Latin name Donatus meaning "given"... [more]

DORIANO   m   Italian
Italian form of DORIAN

DUILIO   m   Italian
From the Roman name Duilius, which is possibly derived from Latin duellum "war"... [more]

DURANTE   m   Italian
Italian form of the Late Latin name Durans which meant "enduring".

EDMONDO   m   Italian
Italian form of EDMUND

EDOARDO   m   Italian
Italian form of EDWARD

EFISIO   m   Italian
From the Latin byname Ephesius, which originally belonged to a person who was from the city of Ephesus in Ionia... [more]

EGIDIO   m   Italian
Italian form of Aegidius (see GILES)

ELIA   m   Italian, Dutch
Italian and Dutch form of ELIJAH

ELIGIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ELIGIUS

ELIO   m   Italian
Italian form of AELIUS or HELIOS

ELISEO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of ELISHA

ELMO   m   English, German, Italian
Originally a short form of Germanic names that began with the element helm meaning "helmet, protection"... [more]

ELPIDIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ELPIDIUS

EMANUELE   m   Italian
Italian form of EMMANUEL

EMIDIO   m   Italian
From the Late Latin name Emygdius, which was possibly a Latinized form of a Gaulish name (of unknown meaning)... [more]

EMILIANO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of the Roman cognomen Aemilianus, which was itself derived from the family name Aemilius (see EMIL).

EMILIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Aemilius (see EMIL).

ENNIO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Roman family name Ennius which is of unknown meaning... [more]

ENRICO   m   Italian
Italian form of HENRY... [more]

ENZO   m   Italian, French
The meaning of this name is uncertain... [more]

ERASMO   m   Italian
Italian form of ERASMUS

ERCOLE   m   Italian
Italian form of HERCULES

ERMANNO   m   Italian
Italian form of HERMAN

ERMENEGILDO   m   Italian
Italian form of HERMENEGILDO

ERMETE   m   Italian
Means "of Hermes", derived from Hermetis, the Latin genitive form of HERMES, the name of the Greek messenger god.

ERMINIO   m   Italian
Italian form of HERMINIUS

ERNESTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ERNEST

ETTORE   m   Italian
Italian form of HECTOR

EUGENIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Eugenius (see EUGENE).

EUSEBIO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of EUSEBIUS

EUSTACHIO   m   Italian
Italian form of Eustachius (see EUSTACE).

EUSTORGIO   m   Italian
From Eustorgius, the Latin form of the Greek name Ευστοργιος (Eustorgios), which was derived from ευστοργος (eustorgos) meaning "content"... [more]

EVARISTO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of EVARISTUS

EZIO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Roman cognomen Aetius, which was probably derived from Greek αετος (aetos) "eagle"... [more]

FABIANO   m   Italian, Portuguese
Italian and Portuguese form of Fabianus (see FABIAN).

FABIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of FABIUS

FABRIZIO   m   Italian
Italian form of Fabricius (see FABRICE).

FAUSTINO   m   Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of the Roman cognomen Faustinus, which was itself derived from the Roman name FAUSTUS... [more]

FAUSTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of FAUSTUS

FEDELE   m   Italian
Italian form of FIDEL

FEDERICO   m   Spanish, Italian
Spanish and Italian form of FREDERICK... [more]

FEDERIGO   m   Italian
Archaic Italian form of FREDERICK

FELICE   m   Italian
Italian form of FELIX

FELICIANO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman name Felicianus, which was itself derived from the Roman name FELIX.

FERDINANDO   m   Italian
Italian form of FERDINAND

FERRUCCIO   m   Italian
Diminutive of Ferro, a medieval nickname meaning "iron" in Italian.

FILIBERTO   m   Italian
Italian form of FILIBERT

FILIPPO   m   Italian
Italian form of PHILIP

FIORENZO   m   Italian
Italian form of Florentius (see FLORENCE).

FIRMINO   m   Italian
Italian form of FIRMIN

FLAVIO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of FLAVIUS

FLORIANO   m   Italian
Italian form of FLORIAN

FORTUNATO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Late Latin name Fortunatus meaning "fortunate, blessed, happy"... [more]

FRANCESCO   m   Italian
Italian form of Franciscus (see FRANCIS)... [more]

FRANCO (2)   m   Italian
Contracted form of FRANCESCO

FREDIANO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Roman name Frigidian, which was derived from Latin frigidus "cold"... [more]

FULGENZIO   m   Italian
Italian form of Fulgentius (see FULGENCIO).

FULVIO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Roman family name Fulvius, which was derived from Latin fulvus "yellow, tawny".

GABRIELE (1)   m   Italian
Italian form of GABRIEL

GAETANO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Latin name Caietanus, which meant "from Caieta"... [more]

GASPARE   m   Italian
Italian form of JASPER

GASPARO   m   Italian
Italian form of JASPER

GAVINO   m   Italian
From the Late Latin name Gabinus which meant "of Gabium"... [more]

GENNARO   m   Italian
Italian form of the Roman cognomen Ianuarius which meant "January" in Latin... [more]

GERARDO   m   Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of GERARD

GERMANO   m   Italian, Portuguese
Italian and Portuguese form of GERMANUS

GEROLAMO   m   Italian
Italian form of JEROME

GERONIMO   m   Italian
Rare Italian form of JEROME... [more]

GERVASIO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of GERVASIUS

GIACINTO   m   Italian
Italian form of HYACINTHUS

GIACOBBE   m   Italian
Italian form of Iacobus (see JACOB).

GIACOMO   m   Italian
Italian form of Iacomus (see JAMES).

GIAMBATTISTA   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and BATTISTA, given in honour of Saint John the Baptist.

GIAMPAOLO   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and PAOLO

GIAMPIERO   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and PIERO

GIANCARLO   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and CARLO

GIANFRANCO   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and FRANCO (2)

GIANLUCA   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and LUCA (1)

GIANLUIGI   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and LUIGI

GIANMARCO   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and MARCO

GIANMARIA   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and MARIA

GIANNI   m   Italian
Short form of GIOVANNI

GIANNINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of GIOVANNI

GIANPAOLO   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and PAOLO

GIANPIERO   m   Italian
Combination of GIANNI and PIERO

GILBERTO   m   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of GILBERT

GINO   m   Italian
Italian diminutive of names ending in gino.

GIOACCHINO   m   Italian
Italian form of JOACHIM

GIOACHINO   m   Italian
Italian form of JOACHIM

GIORDANO   m   Italian
Italian form of JORDAN

GIORGINO   m   Italian
Diminutive of GIORGIO

GIORGIO   m   Italian
Italian form of GEORGE

GIOSUÈ   m   Italian
Italian form of JOSHUA

GIOTTO   m   Italian
Short form of Ambrogiotto, a diminutive of AMBROGIO... [more]

GIOVANNI   m   Italian
Italian form of Iohannes (see JOHN)... [more]

GIRALDO   m   Italian
Italian form of GERALD

GIROLAMO   m   Italian
Italian form of JEROME

GIULIANO   m   Italian
Italian form of Iulianus (see JULIAN).

GIULIO   m   Italian
Italian form of JULIUS

GIUSEPPE   m   Italian
Italian form of JOSEPH... [more]

GIUSTINO   m   Italian
Italian form of JUSTIN

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