Comments on: A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or would it?!

By: jane

jane — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:05:21 +0000

My daughter recently named her son Atticus. She loved it and kept hearing that people really regretted that they hadn’t had the courage to use it. So she decided to go gor it. There is so much variety in names in most schools now that probably anything goes. And there are lots of great Italian names, I think. Luca and Dominic are great. Did anyone mention Carlo? Or Gian-Carlo? Lorenzo?

By: anne

anne — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:38:35 +0000

My family’s italian and while we don’t have italian first names much, we do have middle names. My brother’s middle name is Rocco. I’ve also always liked Giuseppe (nickname Gus) and Augusto (same). There are lots of italian names that you can Americanize in one way or another. I love Dominic.

By: sioux

sioux — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:38:26 +0000

we’ve got an atticus in our upper manhattan ‘hood and i think it rocks. he doesn’t get made fun of. but he’s only 6. i’ve tended to name my kids after literary characters (even if only loosely). italian names are so beautiful; especially salvatore and luca. what about italian literature for inspiration?

By: KT

KT — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:38:14 +0000

I know an Atticus and he is a very cool kid. We have an Angus and a Duncan. Dominic is a lovely, solid name. In Angus’ class there at one point also a boy named Kobe. Angus & Kobe- the beef kids. Their teacher is a vegetarian.

By: mai

mai — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:29:40 +0000

sausage casing FTW!

Sophia is THE cutest!!!

By: wenders

wenders — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:19:45 +0000

Oh, and there’s a family down the street who’s kids are… Vinnie, Renzo, Bella and Rocco. LOVE that.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:37:55 +0000

When we adopted our son we went round and round with names. We could not agree. We finally agreed on Nathaniel (which means gift from God so how could I argue). I would have loved to name him Damien. I also love the name Giovanni. My husband’s niece is Giovanna.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:37:55 +0000

We had such a hard time naming Owen – I think boy’s names are hard – and I’m actually hoping we’re having a girl just because I’m scared to name another boy.

I love Marco – it’s a perfect Italian, classic, solid name. I also like Vincent, but I’m partial since I have a cousin with the name (yes – my cousin Vinnie!).

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:33:36 +0000

I vote for Gabriel. (Gabe. See? It’s charming.)

By: inky

inky — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:03:53 +0000

Gianfranco. (John)

Francisco. (Frank)

Dominic. (Dom)

Alessio. (Alex)

Sergio. (Sergio)