Turco's Personal Name List

Walter
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Italian, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: WAWL-tər(English) VAL-tu(German) VAL-tehr(Swedish, Italian)
Rating: 12% based on 5 votes
From the Germanic name Waltheri meaning "power of the army", from the elements walt "power, authority" and heri "army". In medieval German tales (notably Waltharius by Ekkehard of Saint Gall) Walter of Aquitaine is a heroic king of the Visigoths. The name was also borne by an 11th-century French saint, Walter of Pontoise. The Normans brought it to England, where it replaced the Old English cognate Wealdhere.

A famous bearer of the name was the English courtier, poet and explorer Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). It was also borne by Walter Scott (1771-1832), a Scottish novelist who wrote Ivanhoe and other notable works.

Valeria
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Romanian, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Ancient Roman
Other Scripts: Валерия(Russian) Валерія(Ukrainian)
Pronounced: va-LEH-rya(Italian) ba-LEH-rya(Spanish) vu-LYEH-ryi-yə(Russian) wa-LEH-ree-a(Latin) və-LEHR-ee-ə(English) və-LIR-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Valerius. This was the name of a 2nd-century Roman saint and martyr.
Tiziano
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: teet-TSYA-no
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
Italian form of the Roman cognomen Titianus, which was derived from the Roman praenomen Titus. A famous bearer was the Venetian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio (1488-1576), known in English as Titian.
Silvio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: SEEL-vyo(Italian) SEEL-byo(Spanish)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Silvius.
Sergio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: SEHR-jo(Italian) SEHR-khyo(Spanish)
Rating: 60% based on 6 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Sergius.
Salvatore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: sal-va-TO-reh
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Italian cognate of Salvador.
Renato
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Croatian
Pronounced: reh-NA-to(Italian, Spanish) ri-NA-too(European Portuguese) heh-NA-too(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Italian, Portuguese and Spanish form of Renatus.
Ottavia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ot-TA-vya
Rating: 37% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Octavia.
Orlando
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Carolingian Cycle
Pronounced: or-LAN-do(Italian, Spanish)
Rating: 34% based on 5 votes
Italian form of Roland, as used in the epic poems Orlando Innamorato (1483) by Matteo Maria Boiardo and the continuation Orlando Furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto. In the poems, Orlando is a knight in Charlemagne's army who battles against the invading Saracens. A character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It (1599) also bears this name, as does a city in Florida.
Orazio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: o-RAT-tsyo
Rating: 48% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Horatius.
Olivia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Pronounced: o-LIV-ee-ə(English) ə-LIV-ee-ə(English) o-LEE-vya(Italian, German) o-LEE-bya(Spanish) AW-LEE-VYA(French) O-lee-vee-ah(Finnish) o-LEE-vee-ya(Dutch)
Rating: 43% based on 6 votes
This name was used in this spelling by William Shakespeare for a character in his comedy Twelfth Night (1602). This was a rare name in Shakespeare's time [1] that may have been based on Oliva or Oliver, or directly on the Latin word oliva meaning "olive". In the play Olivia is a noblewoman wooed by Duke Orsino. Instead she falls in love with his messenger Cesario, who is actually Viola in disguise.

Olivia has been used in the English-speaking world since the 18th century, though it did not become overly popular until the last half of the 20th century. Its rise in popularity in the 1970s may have been inspired by a character on the television series The Waltons (1972-1982) [2] or the singer Olivia Newton-John (1948-2022). In 1989 it was borne by a young character on The Cosby Show, which likely accelerated its growth. It reached the top rank in England and Wales by 2008 and in the United States by 2019.

A famous bearer was the British-American actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020).

Mauro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: MOW-ro(Italian, Spanish)
Rating: 53% based on 6 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Maurus.
Massimo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: MAS-see-mo
Rating: 35% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Maximus.
Marcello
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mar-CHEHL-lo
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Marcellus.
Livia 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: LEE-vya(Italian)
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Livius. This was the name of the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus, Livia Drusilla.
Grazia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: GRAT-tsya
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Means "grace" in Italian, making it a cognate of Grace.
Giovanni
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jo-VAN-nee
Rating: 38% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Iohannes (see John). This name has been very common in Italy since the late Middle Ages, as with other equivalents of John in Europe. The Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the painter Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) and the painter and sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) were famous bearers of the name.
Gianmaria
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jam-ma-REE-a
Rating: 22% based on 5 votes
Combination of Gianni and Maria.
Giancarlo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jang-KAR-lo
Rating: 32% based on 6 votes
Combination of Gianni and Carlo.
Giambattista
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jam-bat-TEE-sta
Rating: 24% based on 5 votes
Combination of Gianni and Battista, given in honour of Saint John the Baptist.
Giacomo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JA-ko-mo
Rating: 58% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Iacomus (see James). Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer of operas.
Francesca
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Catalan
Pronounced: fran-CHEHS-ka(Italian) frən-SEHS-kə(Catalan)
Rating: 43% based on 7 votes
Italian and Catalan feminine form of Franciscus (see Francis).
Flavio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: FLA-vyo(Italian) FLA-byo(Spanish)
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Italian and Spanish form of Flavius.
Fabrizio
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: fa-BREET-tsyo
Rating: 36% based on 5 votes
Italian form of Fabricius (see Fabrice).
Enrico
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ehn-REE-ko
Rating: 33% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Heinrich (see Henry). Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist who did work on the development of the nuclear bomb.
Cristina
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian
Pronounced: kree-STEE-na(Italian, Romanian) krees-TEE-na(Spanish) kreesh-TEE-nu(European Portuguese) krees-CHEE-nu(Brazilian Portuguese) krees-TEE-nə(Catalan)
Rating: 26% based on 5 votes
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian form of Christina.
Corrado
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: kor-RA-do
Rating: 47% based on 7 votes
Italian form of Conrad. This was a 14th-century saint from Piacenza, Italy.
Claudia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Ancient Roman
Pronounced: KLAW-dee-ə(English) KLOW-dya(German, Italian, Romanian) KLOW-dee-a(Dutch, Latin) KLOW-dhya(Spanish)
Rating: 34% based on 7 votes
Feminine form of Claudius. It is mentioned briefly in the New Testament. As a Christian name it was very rare until the 16th century.
Chiara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: KYA-ra
Rating: 30% based on 6 votes
Italian form of Clara. Saint Chiara (commonly called Clare in English) was a follower of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Calogero
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ka-LAW-jeh-ro
Rating: 22% based on 6 votes
From the Late Latin name Calogerus meaning "beautiful elder", from Greek καλός (kalos) meaning "beautiful" and γέρων (geron) meaning "old man, elder". This was the name of a 5th-century saint, a hermit of Sicily.
Anselmo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: an-SEHL-mo(Italian, Spanish) un-SEHL-moo(European Portuguese) un-SEW-moo(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 36% based on 7 votes
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of Anselm.
Angela
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Slovene, Slovak, Russian, Macedonian, Greek, Late Roman
Other Scripts: Ангела(Russian, Macedonian) Άντζελα(Greek)
Pronounced: AN-jəl-ə(English) AN-jeh-la(Italian) ANG-geh-la(German) ANG-gə-la(German) AN-gyi-lə(Russian)
Rating: 22% based on 6 votes
Feminine form of Angelus (see Angel). As an English name, it came into use in the 18th century. A notable bearer is the former German chancellor Angela Merkel (1954-).
Amadeo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Italian (Rare)
Pronounced: a-ma-DHEH-o(Spanish) a-ma-DEH-o(Italian)
Rating: 31% based on 7 votes
Spanish form of Amadeus, as well as an Italian variant. This was the name of a 19th-century king of Spain (born in Italy).
Alessandro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: a-lehs-SAN-dro
Rating: 48% based on 9 votes
Italian form of Alexander. A famous bearer was Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), the Italian physicist who invented the battery.
Ada 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: AY-də(English) A-dha(Spanish) A-da(Polish) AH-dah(Finnish)
Rating: 79% based on 9 votes
Originally a short form of Germanic names such as Adelaide or Adelina that begin with the element adal meaning "noble". Saint Ada was a 7th-century Frankish abbess at Le Mans. This name was also borne by Augusta Ada King (1815-1852), the Countess of Lovelace (known as Ada Lovelace), a daughter of Lord Byron. She was an assistant to Charles Babbage, the inventor of an early mechanical computer.
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