Comments on: Old-Fashioned Italian Baby Names

By: Carmine De Lucia

Carmine De Lucia — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:17:00 +0000

Im trying to decypher my great grandmothers first name as it appears on a ships passenger list, dated 1908. All I can make out from the ship’s pursers handwriting is A—arasia. Its very possible that there are only 2 letters missing rather than 3. She was from Monteforte, in Campania. Ive looked at several lists of names and a few appear to end in “rasia” Does anyone have any ideas. Also she was not a passenger, but rather, was only listed as a next of kin by my grandfather. She remained in Italy.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:43:51 +0000

I have the death certificate of one of my grandmother’s brothers who died young. It’s handwritten and not easy to read, but it looks like Marchillino. Has anyone heard of that? I haven’t found any reference to it yet. The closest I’ve seen is Marcellino. I’ve found several spelling mistakes for my family’s names in census, birth certificates, … I found Chiarina spelled Catherine and she never went by that name. I think if the person doing the writing wasn’t Italian they just put down whatever looked right to them.

By: paolo

paolo — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:54:24 +0000

I am a 22 year old Italian-Canadian living in Toronto, Canada. I have a Bartolomeo, Gaspare, Luigina, Giacomina (Jacqueline?), Assunta, and Rafaella in my family. That is a combination of paternal sicilian0 and maternal calabrese family. There were many other italiani children in MY generation who had these names also in my communities, including Corrado, Settimo, Serafina, and the like. Whether these names will remain in the Italian-Canadian community I can’t say.

By: Richard Davies

Richard Davies — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:12:12 +0000

It’s interesting that Italians don’t use their middle names much if at all, considering that you’ve mentioned elsewhere that many people have the same first names, though I understand there are more surnames used in Italy than other countries.

This was a particular for my Dad when he was young as he had the same name as my Grandad, often opening each other’s post by accident.

Talking of numbered names Octavia (8th child) is another Roman name that has survived to recent time.

By: Eros Amaro

Eros Amaro — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:47:31 +0000

Are we talking about old fashioned names? Huh! I can stay hours telling my relatives’ names! By first me: my name is Eros Laerte. My father third name is Ermes (without the H), his brother have name Massimo Marcello Curzio, and another brother of him is named Ivan Silvio. My paternal grand-father was Socrate (like philosopher) and his siblings names are: Spartaco, Florio, Alba (dawn), Sigfrido, Wanda, Pierino (little Peter), Osvaldo, Vittoria and Ovidio. Finally, my great-grandfather’s sister was named Brigita, with only 1 T. My paternal grand-mother is Delfina (she-dolphin), but is better known as Pia: in fact in her family seems that all want not to use their real name!. Her siblings are: Andrea (a.k.a. Silvio), Pompeo (a.k.a. Giovambattista), Anna, Maria, Federico, Margherita (daisy, a.k.a. Rita), Teresa, Ottaviano (a.k.a. Novelio). Some cousins of mine are: Ivo, Goffredo, Virginia, Lucrezia, Manlio, Moira, Silvana, Leone (lion), Annetta (2), Erminio. Finally, my mother’s aunt is Nelia: a name that, by her own ammission, means absolutely nothing.
I enjoyed this site
Hello

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:31:41 +0000

When my ancestors came from Campania region(Morra De Sanctis) in early 1900′s they had beautiful romatic Italian names..Giuseppe, Maria, Angelo, Pasquale, Domenico, Rocco, Gerardo,Rosaria, Vincenzo. But to fit in the names changed to, or because there were mostly Irish teachers that where heavily inudated with Italian-Americans: Joseph, Mary, Angelo, Patrick, Dominick, Rocco,James, Rose and Vincent.
Anyway, I enjoyed the site very much.
Thank you. ps. Pennella was my family’s surname.

By: kathy

kathy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:59:10 +0000

my Sicilian grandmother’s name is Santa

By: Caterina

Caterina — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:29:42 +0000

Ciao:
In my family we have several aunts called Filomena, Fortunata, Ippolita and some cousins called Assunta and Annunziata. It has been through these “older” names that we have been able to track our genealogy around the world.

Interesting topic, vero?

By: Italian Baby Names

Italian Baby Names — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:51:20 +0000

I love Italian names, combined with the Italian accent, they're fantastic. Italian Baby Names

By: Maria Teresa

Maria Teresa — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:33:50 +0000

I found LUPERDI as a girl’s Italian name twice
Do you know the origin of this name?
Thank You,
Maria