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Top 50 Italian Boy Names

Written by Elizabeth Weiss McGolerick

Your admiration of Italy can be as simple as appreciating the country’s unique boot shape or as intense as adoring their rich gastronomic pleasures. Wherever your affection lies, you don’t have to be Italian to enjoy the beauty of the language and the many Italian baby names available for your child. And you don’t have to be of Italian descent to embrace this culture’s unique baby-naming practices. Check out our pick of the top 50 Italian baby boy names.

Italian baby boy Traditional Italian baby-naming convention is to truly keep things all in the family. Grandparents figure prominently, with names often chosen from the father’s side first and then the mother’s.

The names of the parents themselves are also passed on to children, as well as the titles of aunts, uncles or other relatives. And this goes for boys as well as girls.

If you’re having trouble coming up with names for your strapping young man, the place to start might be your family tree.

Or consider our list of top 50 Italian names for baby boys below. There’s much more to be had in this beautiful language than just Guido or Mario.

Top 50 Italian Boy Baby Names

1. Aldo
2. Alessandro
3. Alvaro
4. Amedeo
5. Andres
6. Angelo
7. Antonio
8. Arno
9. Bruno
10. Carlo
11. Carmine
12. Claudio
13. Cosimo
14. Dante
15. Domenico
16. Elio
17. Enzo
18. Francesco
19. Franco
20. Fredo
21. Gianni
22. Giorgio
23. Giovanni
24. Giuseppe
25. Guido
26. Leonardo
27. Lorenzo
28. Luca
29. Luciano
30. Luigi
31. Marco
32. Mario
33. Mateo
34. Nicolo
35. Orlando
36. Paolo
37. Pietro
38. Prima
39. Raoul
40. Raphael
41. Rocco
42. Romeo
43. Salvatore
44. Santino
45. Sergio
46. Umberto
47. Valentino
48. Vincenzo
49. Vittorio
50. Vito

For some super-Italian (or rather, Sicilian) inspiration, explore The Godfather – first names like Vito, Santino and Fredo already made our top 50 list above, but there are also last names of characters worth trying on for size like Corleone, Tessio or Clemenza. After all, plenty of men seem to have a special affinity for that famous line, “go to the mattresses” – think how delighted your son will be when he discovers that his name was sparked by this timeless film classic!

There are many different dialects spoken in Italy. Because of this, regional influences can figure prominently when it comes to baby naming trends, spellings and variations. Saints’ names, particularly local patron saints, are also a very popular choice. Sometimes even cities or villages serve as a unique baby name.

One Italian tradition definitely worth adopting is the beloved Italian custom known as the name day celebration. Birthdays are an occasion unto themselves, but everyone gets a second chance to celebrate annually on name day – onomastico in Italian. So many Italians are named for saints, and each saint’s feast day presents a time to celebrate the child’s name as well as their day of birth. For example, Saint Alexander of Bergamo is the patron saint of the Italian city of Bergamo. His feast day is August 26 – the day everyone named Alexander gets another opportunity to have cake and ice cream (whether you’re from Bergamo or not)!