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Help[Opinions] Re: What do you think of Italian names?
in reply to a message by Anonymous12
Where I live, all of these could be used on girls and no one would think it was weird. The "-ele" names would probably be associated with their (French?) feminine "elle" variants, the "-a" names would be seen as feminine because that's a common ending for girl names, and Simone would also be associated with the French version.
That doesn't mean they couldn't be used for boys, but a lot of people would read these and assume they were girls before knowing. Andrea and Nicola are probably the most recognizable as unisex... maybe Mattia and Michele too? But people here would still guess feminine, especially if they didn't see an Italian last name with these first names. For instance if I saw "Andrea Smith", "Nicola Jones", or "Michele Cooper" I would just assume they were girls. If I saw "Andrea Giordano" I would think "hold on, is this a boy or a girl? I need to find out."
That doesn't mean they couldn't be used for boys, but a lot of people would read these and assume they were girls before knowing. Andrea and Nicola are probably the most recognizable as unisex... maybe Mattia and Michele too? But people here would still guess feminine, especially if they didn't see an Italian last name with these first names. For instance if I saw "Andrea Smith", "Nicola Jones", or "Michele Cooper" I would just assume they were girls. If I saw "Andrea Giordano" I would think "hold on, is this a boy or a girl? I need to find out."
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