Italian baby names
The names filed as Italian take their meaning from Italian: Bianca ("white"), Santino ("little saint"), Donna ("lady"), Romeo ("pilgrim to Rome"), and places such as Sienna and Capri. Italian forms of older names, like Gianna and Luca, are filed under Hebrew and Greek. Of the names we have researched, 15 are Italian, given to 16,869 US babies in 2025.
Rising Italian names
Biggest climbers in rank since 2020: Loretta (#943 to #606), Capri (#682 to #547), Sienna (#166 to #94), Gia (#331 to #287), Aria (#27 to #26), Santino (#445 to #353), Romeo (#378 to #302), Salvatore (#956 to #945).
Italian girl names (11)
| Name | Meaning | Rank 2025 | Babies 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aria | Origin uncertain | #26 | 6,130 |
| Bella | pet form of Isabella; 'beautiful' | #136 | 2,129 |
| Sienna | Siena (Italian city); reddish-brown | #94 | 2,659 |
| Gia | short form of Giovanna or Georgia | #287 | 1,069 |
| Bianca | white | #500 | 594 |
| Capri | the Italian island (origin of the name uncertain) | #547 | 551 |
| Loretta | little Laura; or from Loreto | #606 | 485 |
| Gina | short form of Georgina, Regina and others | #2,085 | 90 |
| Donna | lady | #1,965 | 98 |
| Norma | coined for Bellini's opera (1831) | #2,012 | 95 |
| Rosetta | "little rose" | #3,289 | 48 |
Italian boy names (4)
How origins are assigned
Each name gets one origin: the language its meaning comes from, which is not always the language it reached English through. Mateo is Spanish in form but Hebrew in origin, so it is listed as Hebrew. The lists cover the roughly 2,000 most used names we have researched so far. Common meanings among Italian names: names from places, a color, god.