1706 Names

Sara - Serena - Francesca - Silvia - Laura.
I strongly reccomend Francesca, but I'm partisan: it's my doughter's name.
Anyway, any name you'll choose it'll be wonderful to have a new baby :) :)

Emma, if the baby's a girl. It sounds good both in Italian and in English.
And all the best for the new baby!!

Francesco
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A couple of suggestions from relatives names in Naples
Rosanna & Elizabetta for girls
Antonio & Luca for boys.

Congratulations, I'm sure whatever name you choose, you and your newborn will love it :)

Stribs

I wanted names for my children that were both italian and english. I had Carla and Anthony :)

If we had gotten a girl six years ago I had been fighting with my partner to name her Claudia Gabriella, to match my fathers and grand gathers initials. I find Claudia very nice name and it is Italian/English/international. No favourites on boys names at the moment.

Good luck with the new family member!

Paul

Marisa for a girl...Alessandro for a boy :)

Welcome to the new baby.

The names I like are Ricardo instantly recognisable and interpreted as Richard but for a girl Anna-Maria or Ann-Marie.

Good luck hope everything goes well

Carol (Carolina) :)

Friends of mine called their son Sebastian - I wondered what would happen to the name over time.

18 years on - everyone [including his parents] knows him as 'Sebi'

So choose what you want - it will evolve into an Italian [type] name anyway .

We named our son Alexander and when he was in Italy with us, everyone used to call him Alessandro which I think is a lovely name.

For a girl I would choose Gabriella, Italian\English

Good luck and best wishes to you both :)

Matteo e Giulia???

Paola

Congratulations! and good luck with the birth. A new baby is a wonderful thing.
My son, who was born in Italy is called Carlo. Had he been a girl it was going to be Giorgia. You will let us all know the outcome I hope!

Giorgia is a beautiful name!

Many thanks for the names and best wishes. There are indeed some lovely names here, that hitherto, had not been considered so thank you all. Will post after the birth what we went with!

Please feel free to keep adding to the list any others!

Laura and Giulia (Julia) are perfect in many languages. Just have to pronounce the vowels a bit differently and change that J to G (or Y in Russian) and your daughter (if its a girl) will be at home the world over. Short first names are preferable for first graders who are learning to write their names too.

[QUOTE=shepsterboy1]My wife and I are expecting our second child (any time over the next 2 weeks) and are struggling with names. Sex of the baby is not known and despite scouring name books have drawn a blank - although we have a few girls names that may do the trick!!

My wife's family is orginally from Campania and our first son is called John - Carmine (english / Italian) but we are looking for a name that is Italian but perhaps with an english version. Suggestions / ideas welcome! as we need HELP![/QUOTE]

i did not know that carmine was also john?
as my fathers name is carmine, giovanni, and i was named giovanni [john].

anyway boys name, laurence/ lorenzo or enzo.

Sorry for the confusion Giovanni

My son's name is John (forename) Carmine (middle name)- two seperate names - the John being english and Carmine being italian, which is the name of his italian nonno.

I like the names Christopher and Isabella.

[QUOTE=shepsterboy1]My wife and I are expecting our second child (any time over the next 2 weeks) and are struggling with names. Sex of the baby is not known and despite scouring name books have drawn a blank - although we have a few girls names that may do the trick!!

My wife's family is orginally from Campania and our first son is called John - Carmine (english / Italian) but we are looking for a name that is Italian but perhaps with an english version. Suggestions / ideas welcome! as we need HELP![/QUOTE]

My children are called Emily and Luca. Dont call him Mathew. The Italians pronounce it Mateww

Firstly, congratulations on your expected new arrival.

We have a two month old named Matthew as Matteo is the italian version which we really like. If he had been a girl he would have been Francesca or Isabella.

Also try:

Massimo - Max
Gianluca - Luca
Anna
Chiara - Cara/Kara

All the best

The first post on the thread was 27.10. Has the baby arrived yet and what was he / she called. Can we have a picie please :p

Thanks again for all the names provided. Sorry for the delay in updating our progress - just back from paternity leave.

My wife gave birth to a boy on Sunday 13th Nov. He weighed 7llbs and 10oz and mum and baby are doing well.

For about 5 days, he was nameless as we 'discussed' options. For a shortwhile, he was an Elio, Giorgio and a Sergio before we finally settled on Matteo, with Gaetano (his nonno's name) as a middle name.

Sleepless nights a plenty but it is worth it.

Cannot wait to get him over to Italy to meet his extended family and to show him our little bit of Italy, a small family apartment in Abruzzo, where I hope we will enjoy many a holiday.

paula - re - piccies - I do not know how to do that on this forum

Congratulations! Matteo is a lovely choice :)

Shepsterboy1
First of all congratulations
Re photos
I believe you should post under blogs and galleries but you can post in your reply.
Select 'post reply' then scroll down until 'manage attachments' select then in ' upload file' you can browse your computer for the photo, there is a limit to size (it will warn you if its too big) so you may have to fiddle a bit or compress it 'zip'.
If you type your message first and then do the photo bit it should come in at the bottom.
Preview post to see if it works before submit reply.
Keep trying, if I can do it so can you

Stribs

Congratulations, love and stuff to all... (shame about losing the "Giorgio" though, it has a sort of ring to it :) )

Congratulation and well done on you bouncing baby boy, love to all :p

Pictures - once you've clicked on reply and typed your responce in, scroll further down to and click on 'manage attachments' then click on browse and you will have to look in your own picture files to select the photo you want to attach. Go on have a go, if i can do it I'm sure you can :eek:

Congratulations and much love to you and your family!

Looking forward to pictures.

John and Dee

Having an Italian surname seemed to make it a bit easier for us,an english christian name just didnt sound right.We chose Alessandro and Luca for boys and Olivia for a girl.There are lots of lovely Italian names so best of luck to you both
jane.