Uncommon Italian Boy Names

Italian names offer distinctive local forms as well as names shared around the Mediterranean. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1907.

166#1,218
Up 4 rank positions in five years
1992

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1894.

16#5,779
Down 793 rank positions in five years
1917

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1956.

125#1,438
Down 228 rank positions in five years
2008

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1906.

145#1,329
Up 9 rank positions in five years
2006

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1900.

52#2,554
Up 552 rank positions in five years
1969

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1904.

27#3,978
Up 73 rank positions in five years
1921

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1906.

56#2,425
Down 257 rank positions in five years
1974

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1912.

49#2,654
Up 1,019 rank positions in five years
2006

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1915.

165#1,224
Up 536 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1962.

24#4,292
Up 169 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1916.

31#3,650
Up 612 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1908.

20#5,001
Up 1,206 rank positions in five years
1969

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1921.

20#5,016
Up 1,224 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1911.

16#5,652
Up 1,969 rank positions in five years
1927

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1973.

44#2,849
Up 1,336 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1925.

12#6,893
Down 854 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1915.

12#6,920
Down 1,394 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1910.

—Unranked
—
1921

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1914.

13#6,578
Up 602 rank positions in five years
2019

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1967.

20#5,023
Up 405 rank positions in five years
2013

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1911.

6#11,173
new
1917

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1920.

18#5,373
Up 61 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1911.

—Unranked
—
1915

Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 2001.

24#4,334
Up 1,050 rank positions in five years
2024

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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.

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