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Renaissance names from the Italian courts
26 names · 12 girls · 14 boys · records through 2025
Fifteenth-century Italy produced a naming register as distinctive as its art: Latin revivals, saints' names, and a fashion for the heroic and the classical that arrived three centuries before it reached England.
This guide has 26 names: 12 girl names and 14 boy names. A curated set of Italian Renaissance names matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.
Before the names
Much of it is in strong American use today, though rarely for its original reasons — Leonardo, Lorenzo, Bianca and Francesca are all in the current records with real ranks.
Each name below is verified against the latest data.
Girl names
12 names
Boy names
14 names
- Leonardo#91 today
- Lorenzo#117 today
- Giovanni#123 today
- Matteo#146 today
- Antonio#176 today
- Angelo#304 today
- Dante#308 today
- Marco#370 today
- Raphael#394 today
- Carlo#867 today
- Gian#955 today
- Francesco#1328 today
- Bernardo#1347 today
- Paolo#1992 today
Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.
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