Italian Male Name Generator

Italian male names nearly always end in -o because the language kept Latin's gender endings: Marco, Paolo, Francesco, Alessandro. The main exceptions end in -e (Giuseppe, Gabriele, Michele, Daniele, Raffaele, Emanuele, Cesare) or are Hebrew and Greek borrowings like Andrea, Luca, Mattia, Nicola and Elia, which are masculine in Italy despite ending in -a. A name also dates a man almost to the decade. Boys born since 2010 are overwhelmingly Leonardo, Francesco, Alessandro, Lorenzo, Mattia, Tommaso, Gabriele, Riccardo and Edoardo; their fathers are Marco, Luca, Davide, Simone and Federico; their grandfathers are Giuseppe, Giovanni, Antonio, Mario, Luigi and Salvatore, and in the south often saints' names such as Gennaro, Carmine, Rocco, Pasquale, Calogero and Vito, given for the town's patron.

The surname places him on the map. Brambilla, Fumagalli, Colombo and Cattaneo say Lombardy; Ferrero, Rosso and Bertolotti say Piedmont; Trevisan, Visentin and Zanetti say the Veneto; Esposito, Cuomo, Scognamiglio and Iovine say Naples; Giuffrida, Puglisi and Randazzo say Sicily; Melis, Piras and Sanna say Sardinia. Prefixes matter too: De, Di and D' (De Luca, Di Pietro, D'Alessandro) mean son of and cluster in the centre and south, while Lo and La (Lo Presti, La Rosa) are strongly Sicilian. Every name here pairs a male given name with a surname that genuinely occurs in that region.