Boy Names of Italian language or origin
Italian names for baby boys, with 1119 entries. Many Italian names end with a vowel, which is characteristic of the vowel verb endings in the Italian language. Traditionally, boys were named after biblical saints due to the Catholic religious culture in the country, and names such as Pedro, Marco and Luca have their equivalent versions in the English-speaking world.
Italian names are popular baby names for boys, and they are also considered trendy. The names have been increasing in popularity since the 1940s. At the recent height of their usage in 2018, 1.550% of baby boys were given Italian names. There were 26 Italian names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. In 2018, within all Italian names, the Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Greek, Hawaiian, and Polish Leo was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #50 and a usage of 0.3483%.