Short Italian Boy Names
Italian names offer distinctive local forms as well as names shared around the Mediterranean. Every spelling here has five letters or fewer, making the written length easy to compare. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1897. | 721#438 | Down 109 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1899. | 2,443#148 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1909. | 339#760 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1912. | 45#2,807 | Down 214 rank positions in five years | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1913. | 119#1,490 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1904. | —Unranked | — | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1915. | 50#2,613 | Down 137 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1912. | 20#4,969 | Up 3,484 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1926. | 6#11,033 | new | 1959 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 2001. | 197#1,091 | Up 570 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1907. | 10#8,079 | new | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1961. | 26#4,110 | Up 1,789 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1985. | 7#10,073 | Down 2,347 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1958. | —Unranked | — | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1956. | —Unranked | — | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1948. | 5#13,696 | Up 161 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1928 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 2000. | 5#12,084 | Down 5,041 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1924. | 9#8,447 | new | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1987. | 6#11,742 | new | 1997 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1919. | —Unranked | — | 1919 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.