Italian Male Name Generator

Authentic Italian boy names with regional surnames

Real-World Names & CulturesPart of: real-world name generators500 names

0 of 500 seen

This or that?

7 picks, 1 winner

Tap the name you like more.

Tap a name to copy it. The arrows swap one name.

Or browse all 500 names, A to Z

Generate real Italian male names that pair classic and modern given names with surnames that actually occur in each region, from Leonardo Brambilla in Milan to Gennaro Esposito in Naples. Ideal for characters, placeholders, genealogy mock-ups and baby-name browsing.

About Italian male names

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.

How to choose Italian male names

  • Pick the given name by birth decade: Leonardo, Mattia or Tommaso for a boy, Marco or Davide for a man in his thirties, Giuseppe or Salvatore for a grandfather.
  • Match the surname to the setting: a Milanese character reads right as Brambilla or Colombo, a Neapolitan as Esposito or Cozzolino, a Sicilian as Giuffrida or Randazzo, a Sardinian as Piras or Melis.
  • Use a patron-saint name like Gennaro, Calogero, Rocco or Vito to signal a traditional southern family without saying so; in Naples Gennaro is shorthand for the city itself.
  • Italians rarely use middle names, but double names like Gian Luca or Pier Paolo are one unit and are often fused into Gianluca, Pierpaolo or Giancarlo.
  • For an Italian-American character, keep the Italian surname but expect the given name to be anglicized: Giuseppe becomes Joseph or Joe, Vincenzo becomes Vincent or Vinnie.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most popular Italian boy names right now?

Recent ISTAT birth data puts Leonardo, Francesco, Alessandro, Lorenzo, Mattia, Tommaso, Gabriele, Riccardo, Edoardo and Andrea at the top. Leonardo has held first place for several years running, and Edoardo and Tommaso have climbed sharply.

Why do some Italian male names end in -a?

Andrea, Luca, Mattia, Nicola, Elia and Tobia come from Greek and Hebrew rather than Latin, so they kept their original endings. In Italy they are unambiguously male; Andrea in particular is a man's name, even though it is a girl's name in English-speaking countries.

What do the prefixes De, Di and D' mean in Italian surnames?

They mean of or son of, so De Luca is descendant of Luca and D'Angelo descendant of Angelo. They are most common in central and southern Italy. Lo and La (Lo Presti, La Rosa) are Sicilian, and Dal or Dalla (Dal Santo, Dalla Valle) point to the Veneto.

Are names like Gennaro, Calogero and Gaetano still given?

They are uncommon for newborns nationally but still appear in the south, where boys are named for the local patron saint: Gennaro in Naples, Calogero in Agrigento, Gaetano across Campania and Sicily, Efisio and Gavino in Sardinia. They instantly mark a character as southern and traditional.

Related generators

More like this

Browse category

All 500 Italian male names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

Plain text, one name per line.

A: 42 names

  • Achille Iovine
  • Achille Negri
  • Adriano Coppola
  • Adriano Gallo
  • Agatino Spampinato
  • Agostino Bruno
  • Agostino Capasso
  • Alberto Giusti
  • Alberto Rizzi
  • Aldo Bonfiglioli
  • Aldo Villa
  • Alessandro Colombo
  • Alessandro Crippa
  • Alessandro Sartori
  • Alessio Borrelli
  • Alessio Cossu
  • Alfio Lo Presti
  • Alfredo Caputo
  • Alfredo Rosso
  • Ambrogio Martino
  • Amedeo Amato
  • Amedeo Ferrero
  • Amerigo Bernardi
  • Andrea Conti
  • Andrea Dal Santo
  • Andrea Pastore
  • Angelo Cannizzaro
  • Angelo Cavallo
  • Angelo De Luca
  • Annibale Bertolotti
  • Annibale Pepe
  • Anselmo Fiore
  • Antioco Carta
  • Antonio Critelli
  • Antonio Giordano
  • Antonio Usai
  • Arturo Giordani
  • Arturo Vitale
  • Attilio Brambilla
  • Attilio Ruggiero
  • Augusto Fumagalli
  • Augusto Iodice

B: 16 names

  • Bachisio Serra
  • Baldassarre De Rosa
  • Bartolomeo Beretta
  • Bartolomeo Schiano
  • Benedetto Crippa
  • Benedetto Improta
  • Bernardo Locatelli
  • Bernardo Sannino
  • Biagio Arcidiacono
  • Biagio Ruggiero
  • Biagio Russo
  • Brando Avallone
  • Brando Loi
  • Bruno Parisi
  • Bruno Ricci
  • Bruno Zambon

C: 28 names

  • Callisto Ferretti
  • Calogero Puglisi
  • Calogero Romano
  • Calogero Sorrentino
  • Carlo Cuomo
  • Carlo D'Amico
  • Carmelo Musumeci
  • Carmine Mariani
  • Carmine Telesca
  • Cesare Masi
  • Cesare Monti
  • Christian Cimmino
  • Cirillo Donati
  • Ciro Esposito
  • Ciro Pagano
  • Claudio Coppola
  • Claudio Giordano
  • Claudio Pedrotti
  • Clemente Bellini
  • Corrado Orlando
  • Corrado Scognamiglio
  • Corrado Scuderi
  • Cosimo Damico
  • Cosimo Sorrentino
  • Costantino Basile
  • Cristian Napolitano
  • Cristiano Cozzolino
  • Cristiano Mauri

D: 24 names

  • Damiano Borrelli
  • Damiano Pozzi
  • Daniele Cimmino
  • Daniele Corti
  • Dante Castelli
  • Dante Napolitano
  • Dario Cattaneo
  • Dario Pucci
  • Davide Castelli
  • Davide Furlan
  • Davide Leone
  • Demetrio Bonetti
  • Demetrio Izzo
  • Diego Gatti
  • Diego Martelli
  • Dino Casadei
  • Dino Conte
  • Domenico Claps
  • Domenico Morelli
  • Domenico Vannucci
  • Donato Ferraro
  • Donato Zanetti
  • Duccio Gargiulo
  • Duccio Trevisan

E: 33 names

  • Edmondo Favaro
  • Edmondo Mazzarella
  • Edoardo Dalpiaz
  • Edoardo Greco
  • Edoardo Perrone
  • Edoardo Pozzi
  • Efisio Melis
  • Egidio Somma
  • Egidio Visentin
  • Elia Perrotta
  • Elia Zambon
  • Elio Amato
  • Elio Parodi
  • Emanuele Bartolini
  • Emanuele Sala
  • Emilio Avallone
  • Emilio Pavan
  • Ennio Buonocore
  • Ennio Furlan
  • Enrico Bertolotti
  • Enrico De Santis
  • Enrico Vianello
  • Enzo Auriemma
  • Enzo Dal Santo
  • Ermanno Greco
  • Ermanno Vianello
  • Ettore Buonocore
  • Ettore Ferraro
  • Ettore Grandi
  • Eugenio Vitali
  • Evaristo Battaglia
  • Ezio Lorusso
  • Ezio Scarpa

F: 24 names

  • Fabio Bruno
  • Fabio Pavan
  • Fabio Vitale
  • Fabrizio Busato
  • Fabrizio Leone
  • Fausto Canepa
  • Fausto Silvestri
  • Federico Ferrero
  • Federico Gentile
  • Federico Visentin
  • Ferdinando Neri
  • Filippo Paoli
  • Filippo Sanna
  • Filippo Tomasello
  • Fiorenzo Costantini
  • Flavio Milani
  • Francesco Esposito
  • Francesco Locatelli
  • Francesco Mele
  • Francesco Meloni
  • Franco Bruzzone
  • Franco Mazza
  • Fulvio Bortolotti
  • Fulvio Santoro

G: 55 names

  • Gabriele Ricci
  • Gabriele Sala
  • Gabriele Semeraro
  • Gabriele Tomasi
  • Gaetano Repetto
  • Gaetano Siracusa
  • Gaetano Testa
  • Gaspare De Giorgi
  • Gaspare Toniolo
  • Gastone Pagano
  • Gavino Pinna
  • Gennaro La Rosa
  • Gennaro Santoro
  • Gerardo Lezzi
  • Gerardo Zanon
  • Germano Beltrame
  • Germano Quarta
  • Giacomo Farina
  • Giacomo Tognetti
  • Giancarlo Giuliani
  • Giancarlo Pastorino
  • Gianluca Pellegrino
  • Gianluca Rebora
  • Gianmarco Carbone
  • Gianmarco Ghiglione
  • Gianni Grassi
  • Gianni Oliveri
  • Gianni Zedda
  • Gilberto D'Amico
  • Gioacchino Orlando
  • Gioele Floris
  • Gioele Mazzarella
  • Giordano Mele
  • Giordano Tonon
  • Giorgio Cavallo
  • Giorgio D'Angelo
  • Giorgio Toniolo
  • Giosuè Deiana
  • Giosuè Somma
  • Giovanni Cattaneo
  • Giovanni Costa
  • Giovanni Mura
  • Giovanni Sgro
  • Girolamo Negri
  • Giuliano Bonfiglioli
  • Giuliano Carrieri
  • Giuseppe Loi
  • Giuseppe Mancini
  • Giuseppe Pugliese
  • Giuseppe Vaccaro
  • Goffredo Giuliani
  • Gualtiero Grandi
  • Gualtiero Palmisano
  • Guido Casadei
  • Guido Semeraro

I: 12 names

  • Ignazio Cipriani
  • Ignazio Milani
  • Ignazio Randazzo
  • Ippolito Benedetti
  • Isidoro Barone
  • Italo Bianco
  • Italo Venturi
  • Ivan Dalpiaz
  • Ivano Costantini
  • Ivano Di Giovanni
  • Ivo Benassi
  • Ivo Perrone

J: 2 names

  • Jacopo Bellucci
  • Jacopo Palumbo

K: 1 name

  • Kevin Izzo

L: 34 names

  • Lamberto Pastore
  • Lamberto Venturi
  • Lapo Gualandi
  • Lapo Romeo
  • Lazzaro Rossetti
  • Leonardo Colombo
  • Leonardo Quarta
  • Leonardo Rossi
  • Leone Calabrò
  • Leone Zanardi
  • Leopoldo Montanari
  • Liborio Arena
  • Liborio Lanzoni
  • Lino Innocenti
  • Lino Pugliese
  • Lionello Guerra
  • Livio Bartolini
  • Livio Sgro
  • Lodovico Mazza
  • Lodovico Nannini
  • Lorenzo Bianchi
  • Lorenzo Fumagalli
  • Lorenzo Lezzi
  • Luca Corti
  • Luca Marchetti
  • Luca Martini
  • Luciano Critelli
  • Luciano Martelli
  • Lucio Palmieri
  • Ludovico Cecchi
  • Ludovico De Giorgi
  • Ludovico Scalise
  • Luigi Deiana
  • Luigi Lombardi

M: 40 names

  • Manlio Bellucci
  • Manlio Nicotera
  • Manuel Lombardi
  • Manuel Paoli
  • Manuel Porcu
  • Manuele Gargiulo
  • Marcello Claps
  • Marcello Tognetti
  • Marco Atzeni
  • Marco Bortolotti
  • Marco Galli
  • Marino Giusti
  • Marino Santarsiero
  • Mario Cossu
  • Mario Rizzo
  • Martino Masi
  • Martino Telesca
  • Massimiliano La Rosa
  • Massimiliano Pucci
  • Massimo Favaro
  • Massimo Lombardo
  • Massimo Rosso
  • Matteo Brambilla
  • Matteo Calabrò
  • Matteo De Luca
  • Mattia Carrieri
  • Mattia Ferrari
  • Mattia Villa
  • Mattia Zedda
  • Maurizio Giuffrida
  • Maurizio Vannucci
  • Mauro Testa
  • Michelangelo Mancini
  • Michelangelo Rossetti
  • Michele Parodi
  • Michele Puglisi
  • Mirko Caputo
  • Mirko De Angelis
  • Moreno Di Marco
  • Moreno Montanari

N: 22 names

  • Nando Guerra
  • Nando Marini
  • Nathan Perrotta
  • Nazzareno Canepa
  • Nazzareno Randazzo
  • Nello Bruzzone
  • Nello Messina
  • Nereo Catalano
  • Nereo Repetto
  • Niccolò Lorusso
  • Niccolò Usai
  • Nicodemo Lo Presti
  • Nicodemo Oliveri
  • Nicola Leoni
  • Nicola Palmieri
  • Nicola Tomasi
  • Nicolas Lai
  • Nicolò Cecchi
  • Nicolò Pellegrini
  • Nunzio Di Stefano
  • Nunzio Pappalardo
  • Nunzio Rebora

O: 15 names

  • Olindo Costa
  • Olindo Ghiglione
  • Oliviero Grassi
  • Onofrio Pellegrino
  • Orazio Bernardi
  • Orazio Bonanno
  • Orazio Quattrocchi
  • Oreste Gualandi
  • Oreste Marini
  • Orfeo Carbone
  • Osvaldo Felici
  • Osvaldo Martino
  • Ottavio Caruso
  • Ottavio Pastorino
  • Ottone Morelli

P: 26 names

  • Palmiro Parisi
  • Palmiro Proietti
  • Pantaleo Di Marco
  • Pantaleo Grasso
  • Paolo Busato
  • Paolo Ferrara
  • Paolo Lai
  • Pasquale Fontana
  • Pasquale Giuffrida
  • Patrizio Leoni
  • Patrizio Rizzo
  • Pellegrino Bonanno
  • Pellegrino Quattrocchi
  • Pierluigi Benedetti
  • Pierluigi Proietti
  • Pierpaolo Barone
  • Pierpaolo De Santis
  • Pietro Arena
  • Pietro Beretta
  • Pietro Caruso
  • Pietro Floris
  • Placido Felici
  • Placido Pappalardo
  • Primo Scuderi
  • Primo Tomassini
  • Prospero Silvestri

Q: 2 names

  • Quirino Cerroni
  • Quirino Licata

R: 36 names

  • Raffaele Fiore
  • Raffaele Tomassini
  • Raimondo Monti
  • Raniero Rizzi
  • Remo Lombardo
  • Remo Marinelli
  • Renato Cerroni
  • Renato De Rosa
  • Renzo Paolucci
  • Renzo Siracusa
  • Riccardo Marino
  • Riccardo Mauri
  • Riccardo Palmisano
  • Riccardo Pedrotti
  • Rino Ferretti
  • Rino Marinelli
  • Roberto Bianco
  • Roberto Scarpa
  • Roberto Serra
  • Rocco Rinaldi
  • Rocco Santarsiero
  • Rodolfo Musumeci
  • Rodolfo Pierini
  • Rodrigo Farina
  • Rolando Cannizzaro
  • Rolando Carloni
  • Romano Bellini
  • Romano Paolucci
  • Romeo Mariotti
  • Romolo Di Pietro
  • Rosario Di Carlo
  • Rosario Giambrone
  • Rosario Licata
  • Ruben Palumbo
  • Ruggero Basile
  • Ruggero Pierini

S: 37 names

  • Sabino De Cecco
  • Sabino Tomasello
  • Salvatore Manca
  • Salvatore Moretti
  • Salvatore Patanè
  • Salvatore Scalise
  • Samuele De Angelis
  • Samuele Nannini
  • Sandro Carloni
  • Sandro Porcu
  • Sandro Riva
  • Santo Catalano
  • Santo Di Paolo
  • Saverio Donati
  • Saverio Mariotti
  • Sebastiano D'Alessandro
  • Sebastiano Di Stefano
  • Sebastiano Spampinato
  • Secondo Pellegrini
  • Sergio Beltrame
  • Sergio Marchetti
  • Sergio Martini
  • Settimio Arcidiacono
  • Settimio Di Giovanni
  • Severino Cipriani
  • Severino Patanè
  • Silvano Gatti
  • Silvio Di Pietro
  • Silvio Piras
  • Simone Bonetti
  • Simone Longo
  • Simone Trevisan
  • Sisto Cuomo
  • Sisto Vaccaro
  • Stefano Gallo
  • Stefano Martinelli
  • Stefano Zanetti

T: 21 names

  • Tancredi Melis
  • Tancredi Scognamiglio
  • Tarcisio Valentini
  • Telemaco Marchetti
  • Teodoro Iovine
  • Teodoro Piras
  • Terenzio Conte
  • Thomas Atzeni
  • Tito Fabbri
  • Tiziano Di Carlo
  • Tiziano Vitali
  • Tobia Capasso
  • Tobia Sanna
  • Tommaso Auriemma
  • Tommaso Riva
  • Tommaso Romano
  • Tonino Battaglia
  • Tonino De Cecco
  • Tristano D'Angelo
  • Tullio Grasso
  • Tullio Zanardi

U: 8 names

  • Ubaldo Pepe
  • Ubaldo Pinna
  • Ugo Benassi
  • Ugo Fabbri
  • Ulisse Longo
  • Umberto Innocenti
  • Umberto Messina
  • Urbano Gentile

V: 17 names

  • Valentino Iodice
  • Valentino Serra
  • Valerio Di Paolo
  • Valerio Sartori
  • Vasco Carta
  • Vasco Improta
  • Venanzio Martinelli
  • Vincenzo Barbieri
  • Vincenzo Nicotera
  • Vinicio Mariani
  • Virgilio Manca
  • Virgilio Sannino
  • Vito Giambrone
  • Vito Mura
  • Vito Schiano
  • Vittorio Lanzoni
  • Vittorio Valentini

W: 2 names

  • Walter D'Alessandro
  • Walter Neri

Z: 3 names

  • Zaccaria Rinaldi
  • Zeno Cozzolino
  • Zeno Meloni