[name_f]My[/name_f] favourites are
Giacinto [name_u]Henry[/name_u]
[name_u]Arthur[/name_u] [name_m]Alberto[/name_m]
and [name_m]Emil[/name_m] [name_m]Augusto[/name_m]
Giacinto [name_u]Henry[/name_u] - Yes I am unfamiliar with Giacinto but it’s really cool. Very fun to say. I like this combo and it’s quite handsome!
Eginardo [name_m]Louis[/name_m] - I am unfamiliar with Eginardo. It kind of sounds dated (I’m not using that as a dirty word, just a descriptive adjective) to my American ears but I don’t know how it’s perceived in [name_f]Italy[/name_f]. The flow isn’t my favorite on this one - a little abrupt.
[name_u]Arthur[/name_u] [name_m]Alberto[/name_m] - the alliteration is so cute on this one! The names complement each other very well.
[name_m]Renzo[/name_m] [name_m]Nikolai[/name_m] - my favorite on this list. [name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_m]Renzo[/name_m] and [name_m]Nikolai[/name_m] is just so undeniably cool.
[name_m]Raphael[/name_m] [name_u]Enzo[/name_u] - the names are good separately. The -el En- transition in the middle is awkward for me to say.
[name_m]Otto[/name_m] [name_m]Leopold[/name_m] - neither of these names are really my style but it is a fine combo and seems on trend!
[name_m]Emil[/name_m] [name_m]Augusto[/name_m] - I think it’s good. I don’t know if [name_m]Augusto[/name_m] is the best complement to [name_m]Emil[/name_m] but I do like it!
[name_m]Hans[/name_m] [name_m]Raffaello[/name_m] - again, these names are just so cool, lol. I like how the longer and more frilly (what’s the masculine equivalent of that term?) [name_m]Raffaello[/name_m] balances the shorter and simple [name_m]Hans[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexei[/name_m] [name_m]Marco[/name_m] - love both of these names. [name_f]My[/name_f] second favorite on this list!
renzo!! an old underground love of mine, love to spot it!
renzo nikolai is superb, flows well, names go well together, and doesn’t feel out of place
otto leopold is also very nice, very balanced and very international. otto is another underappreciated one i love to see. my only trouble is…
emil augusto sounds like a fun one (im trying to italianly pronounce them in my head), but…
they’re very… numeral?
is it weird if i say giacinto henry, hans raffaello and alexei marco feel too international? the names scream a place / language of origin, and mixing such strong ones up is a little jarring to me. they’re still kinda cool though?
You will know better living in the area, but [name_m]Hans[/name_m] [name_m]Raffaello[/name_m] just seems a great German-Italian sounding combination. I love [name_m]Hans[/name_m]. Also really like [name_m]Emil[/name_m] (Augusto) and [name_m]Otto[/name_m].
I know, is it weird to use Hans and Alexei for my case? I do not have German and Russian descent, but I always loved the names They would have no trouble of reading and writing where I live though, compared to some names of foreign origin like Nicholas that have multiple spellings that I like.
Since my language is “read as it is write”, I prefer something straightforward to avoid problems!
it is a little… flag waving. they’re not problematic though, i think you’d just end up having to explain it a whole lot.
(like, not me literally having johann in my list yeah) but it also depends on how lax is italy with names, and how much they’d stand out? brazil, for example, as long as you can pronounce it and it doesn’t sound like a bad word, no one bats an eye, it is the land of original names.
As long the name are not creatively misspelled and are decently readable or writable it is fine.
I mean, Ines and Ivan started as non Italian names but got so popular in the past century (Ines in the Belle Epoque, Ivan in the 50s and after) that they are recognised inconscially as very normal names and nobody bats an eye to them. (BtN signed them as Italian names, too)
I guess Hans and Alexei are very known by people, they are just rarer, so no problem about them!
Conservative compared to the U.S. or even the UK, there is a clear distinction between “foreign” and non foreign names, but with time and usage some names from the foreign area like Ivan or Ines, as I said, do shift. Way more liberal in names compared to East Europe, Greece or Spain, for example, I saw a lot of French names in the Top 200.
