xp: Your favorite Italian girl name

ladylisalt

Love to hear all the ideas. Thanks.

Geeps2

I am not Italian, but I married one that is 100%.  We had quite the battle naming our 2 kids.  What made matters worse was we were team green so we had to battle over 2 names instead of just 1.  We liked the name Sophia would call her Sophie but it is ridiculously popular so we canned it. 

I didn't want a kid with a name sounding like s/he came straight out of Italy when I am not Italian AT ALL  just like my husband didn't want a kid sounding like s/he came straight out of Ireland when he isn't Irish.  So basically I am useless to you LOL.  It seems a lot of the Italian girl names are super popular these days and that put us off to most of them.  My husband has a traditional name that is popular so he didn't want our child to have to be 1 of 5 kids with the same name in their class. 

Good Luck with name choices!!!

 

ladylisalt

Geeps2 said:

I am not Italian, but I married one that is 100%.  We had quite the battle naming our 2 kids.  What made matters worse was we were team green so we had to battle over 2 names instead of just 1.  We liked the name Sophia would call her Sophie but it is ridiculously popular so we canned it. 

I didn't want a kid with a name sounding like s/he came straight out of Italy when I am not Italian AT ALL  just like my husband didn't want a kid sounding like s/he came straight out of Ireland when he isn't Irish.  So basically I am useless to you LOL.  It seems a lot of the Italian girl names are super popular these days and that put us off to most of them.  My husband has a traditional name that is popular so he didn't want our child to have to be 1 of 5 kids with the same name in their class. 

Good Luck with name choices!!!

 

I completely get your point on the super popular names. I am a teacher so I firsthand see the trends. It is such a hard decision bc it is permanent. Hopefuly DH and I will agree on a name. lol

Ilumine

Marietta 

JilliansMoma

I'm 3/4 Italian so it was important for me to have at least one Italian name for each of my kids. We picked Giada (but spelled it wrong so my oldest could have the same initials as her dad). My second DD is Natalia nn Talia and my third DD is Sophia Gianna nn Phia!


I also love Francesca, Lucia and Bianca.

Good luck names are hard.
JM

Geeps2

ladylisalt            - Oh I feel your pain.  Both my husband and I are teachers so that made matters even worse in the naming dept   Good Luck in whatever you decide.  We used nymbler.com to get some name ideas.  You can input names you like and it generates a list of names within the same vain.  You may find something that may peak your interest.

 

mwd

Love Marietta. I have  a friend named Gaetana, she goes by Tina. Makes an e-mail address hard. 

traceyboo37

Love Francesca.
For the teaching ladies, do you hear a certain name and cringe because of a nightmare student you had at some point? Lol I swear even my husband remembered those kids I had so immediate veto on those.

ladylisalt

traceyboo37 said:

Love Francesca. For the teaching ladies, do you hear a certain name and cringe because of a nightmare student you had at some point? Lol I swear even my husband remembered those kids I had so immediate veto on those.

ha ha YES! I totally get this! Although I had a Nicholas that really annoyed me and that's my son's name so I got over that but it really does make it hard.

Reilly626

I love Giada! My good friends name is Pina. We are teachers also and there were some great names to others, that we just couldn't stomach. My worst student had an Italian name- Nico. I cringe!!!

ready-or-not

Rosario/Rosaria, nn Roe. That is a huge family name for my Italian husband & we're trying to work it in now, although I don't love it. More of a middle name maybe. We also like Sadie, which I'm not sure is necessarily Italian but it's what his Italian grandmother was called....

Worcbride

My grandmother came to the US from Sicily when she was a young girl.  Her name was Adelina.  My cousin is named after her.

ladylisalt

Worcbride said:

My grandmother came to the US from Sicily when she was a young girl.  Her name was Adelina.  My cousin is named after her.

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lauren_m

I'm 100% italian and so is my husband. We're leaning toward Francesca but also considering Arianna, Lucia, Giovanna (although that's becoming trendy where I live), and Sarafina (worried it's too close to Serafina, a popular restaurant in NY where I live). I also have a niece on the way named Giuliana.

ladylisalt

lauren_m said:

I'm 100% italian and so is my husband. We're leaning toward Francesca but also considering Arianna, Lucia, Giovanna (although that's becoming trendy where I live), and Sarafina (worried it's too close to Serafina, a popular restaurant in NY where I live). I also have a niece on the way named Giuliana.

Is Giovanna becoming trendy? I think thats what we might go with.

3mccann

I've always loved the name Marina.

ladylisalt

Thanks ladies, I think we are 99% finalized on Giavanna.:) I appreciate all the suggestions.