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I think Lelio is a Roman name, the feminine would be Lelia which is more common. Ebe would be Italian for Hebe, Nello is a nickname for various names. e.g. Antonio=Antonello=Nello. Dodo and Lilo also look like nicknames to me, Rwea seems mispelt to me, since there is no w in Italian Luchino is a nickname of Luca (as in the film director Luchino Visconti), Momolo is a traditional name in the Venice area, possibly also a nickname of something, possibly Girolamo.Luxardo is weird too since we don't really have the x. The others ring no bells, I wonder if Glaudio isn't a dialectal variant/mispelling of Claudio.

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Where about was your husband's family from? As concerns the naming trends of Italian Jews, I know it's common to give Roman names such as Tullio, Attilio, Adriano, in order not to stick out too much with Biblical names (which, unlike in Protestant countries, would be highly uncommon in the mainstream population) but at the same avoid Christian names.