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I'm originally from Italy but I've been living abroad for a few years and I'm not planning to move back. I'm quite focussed on my studies carreer right now and don't plan to have children any time soon, but still sometimes I like to fantasize about what I would name my future kids. I'd want them to have names that sound good both in English and Italian so they would feel at ease no matter where they are. For girls it's relatively easy, basically most names ending in -a would work just fine and I have a few ideas (Rowena, Zipporah, Elena, Anna). For boys it's a bit more complicated, especially as some Anglo-Saxon names, especially the trendier and newer ones, can sound very tacky in Italian as sometimes people pick them from American TV shows. One solution would be for the kid to have a name with close equivalents such as Sebastiano/Sebastian, or an Italian name with an English nn, eg he could be named Michele and go by Mike. To complicate matters further, I've suffered from having a very popular name and wouldn't want to inflict that on my kids, yet I intensely dislike yooniq names as well, so names that are trendy/surnamey/ words are more or less out of the pictures. The names I prefer fall in the "traditional yet unusual" category. I also like Hebrew names. Does anyone have any ideas? Sorry if this is a bit long and complicated...