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[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Tonight an old acquaintance friended me on Facebook and I thought I'd go through his friends-list, because he hangs out with the preppy, up-town kids from Florence, Italy.
And up-town people in Italy have a tendency to carry very peculiar names that are often passed down through generations from ex-royal relatives. They also often have a double first name (as well as a double last name, although infrequently both at the same time)

So here are the most interesting, have fun!


Brenda Tessa
Adele (Ah-DELL-ay)
Aiace (Ah-YAH-chay) (b)
Giulia Stella
Fabiola (Fab-EE-oh-lah)
Novella
Livia x 1000
Desideria (Day-zee-DEH-ree-ah) (note: "desiderio" is the noun for "wish")
Flavia (FLAH-vee-ah)
Diletta (Dee-LETT-ah)
Nazareth (g)
Emilia
Jacqueline
Manuel (b)
Enrica
Leila (LEH-ee-lah)
Ginevra (Gee-NAY-vrah) x 1000
Ludovica (Loo-doe-VEE-cah) x 1000
Fiammetta (Fee-ahm-MET-ah)
Eva (EH-vah)
Clementina
Jasmine
Sacha (b)
Linda
Nerina (Nay-REE-nah)
Virginia
Olimpia
Pietro (Pee-EH-tro)
Rachele (Rah-KEH-lay)
Elvira
Viola (color name: "purple")
Tosca (totally grandma's name)
Icaro (EE-kah-row) (b)
Lapo (LAH-poe) (b) x 1000
Selene (Sey-LEH-ney)
Lavinia
Maddalena (Mah-dah-LEH-nah)
Rubina (Roo-BEE-nah) (the equivalent of Ruby)
Rubinia (Roo-BEE-nee-ah) (totally made up!)
Sveva (Z-VEH-vah)
Veronica
Vieri (Vee-EH-ree) (b)
Yuri (YOO-ree) (b)

Comments

[frost.livejournal.com]

I like Adele and Vieri; I kind of like Icaro and Pietro.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I love Italian since you guys pronounce way closer to what we pronounce like in Spanish.

Now, I like a few of these and some I see a lot here but I'll just go with the ones I like ^.^


Brenda
Tessa
Stella
Novella
Livia
Flavia
Ginevra
Eva (EH-vah)- I love EH-vah but I hate EE-vah
Clementina
Olimpia
Selene (Sey-LEH-ney)
Lavinia

[starskye.livejournal.com]

I like a lot of these. I also like some of them in their english pronounciations:

Adele (Ah-DELL-ay)
Stella
Livia
Jacqueline
Ginevra (Gee-NAY-vrah) x 1000
Eva (EH-vah
Nerina (Nay-REE-nah)
Virgini
Pietro
Viola
Icaro
Lavinia

BTW I just met a guy named Michele. (Mi-Kay-Lay) Forgive me if this is not exactly how it's spelled or pronounced but it's something like that. His mother was from Italy. When I first saw it I got super confused because here in America that would be a girl's name- Michele (MISH-ELLE). I thought she was nuts for a moment.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I went to high school with a guy who had this name, but his parents had spelled it Mikele so that English speakers would be able to pronounce it correctly.

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

I like:
Novella
Eva
Tosca
Icaro
Lavinia

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I love Selene and the Italian pronunciation of it. Rubina is really pretty, too.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued by Fabiola. Is the accent really on the short I and not on the O?

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

yep!

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Is it a regional thing? I looked it up on Youtube and found this clip:

(41 seconds and 2 minutes, 30 seconds in both have a pretty clear pronunciation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZnGsZOiAc


It definitely sounds to me like they're saying fah-bee-OH-lah or even elliding all the way to fah-BYOH-lah. But then I know from experience that accented syllables vary in English regions, so it's possible in Italian.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I really like the way Vieri and Maddalena sound!