Top Names of 2000
The most popular names recorded in 2000 were Alessia for girls and Andrea for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official ISTAT data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Alessia | 9,315 |
| 2 | Chiara | 8,671 |
| 3 | Martina | 8,623 |
| 4 | Giulia | 8,385 |
| 5 | Sara | 7,425 |
| 6 | Francesca | 6,991 |
| 7 | Federica | 4,947 |
| 8 | Giorgia | 4,740 |
| 9 | Alice | 3,809 |
| 10 | Anna | 3,663 |
| 11 | Elisa | 3,508 |
| 12 | Sofia | 3,385 |
| 13 | Valentina | 3,220 |
| 14 | Elena | 3,001 |
| 15 | Aurora | 2,679 |
| 16 | Arianna | 2,671 |
| 17 | Ilaria | 2,633 |
| 18 | Giada | 2,571 |
| 19 | Alessandra | 2,525 |
| 20 | Laura | 2,516 |
| 21 | Beatrice | 2,494 |
| 22 | Silvia | 2,448 |
| 23 | Maria | 2,391 |
| 24 | Eleonora | 2,322 |
| 25 | Gaia | 2,273 |
| 26 | Camilla | 2,213 |
| 27 | Noemi | 2,028 |
| 28 | Marta | 2,022 |
| 29 | Irene | 1,981 |
| 30 | Roberta | 1,968 |
| 31 | Claudia | 1,928 |
| 32 | Michela | 1,846 |
| 33 | Rebecca | 1,688 |
| 34 | Veronica | 1,620 |
| 35 | Valeria | 1,564 |
| 36 | Sabrina | 1,527 |
| 37 | Angela | 1,416 |
| 38 | Benedetta | 1,372 |
| 39 | Greta | 1,361 |
| 40 | Nicole | 1,358 |
| 41 | Simona | 1,350 |
| 42 | Erika | 1,343 |
| 43 | Lucia | 1,340 |
| 44 | Serena | 1,272 |
| 45 | Letizia | 1,265 |
| 46 | Ludovica | 1,237 |
| 47 | Caterina | 1,227 |
| 48 | Marika | 1,223 |
| 49 | Matilde | 1,207 |
| 50 | Margherita | 1,102 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Andrea | 10,595 |
| 2 | Francesco | 10,387 |
| 3 | Matteo | 9,810 |
| 4 | Alessandro | 9,226 |
| 5 | Lorenzo | 8,052 |
| 6 | Luca | 7,780 |
| 7 | Marco | 7,014 |
| 8 | Davide | 6,458 |
| 9 | Simone | 6,407 |
| 10 | Giuseppe | 5,643 |
| 11 | Mattia | 5,368 |
| 12 | Riccardo | 5,075 |
| 13 | Antonio | 4,945 |
| 14 | Gabriele | 4,423 |
| 15 | Federico | 4,401 |
| 16 | Alessio | 4,382 |
| 17 | Giovanni | 4,145 |
| 18 | Michele | 3,527 |
| 19 | Daniele | 3,406 |
| 20 | Leonardo | 3,195 |
| 21 | Stefano | 2,981 |
| 22 | Filippo | 2,824 |
| 23 | Salvatore | 2,733 |
| 24 | Nicola | 2,691 |
| 25 | Emanuele | 2,686 |
| 26 | Vincenzo | 2,677 |
| 27 | Samuele | 2,617 |
| 28 | Nicolo | 2,516 |
| 29 | Giacomo | 2,489 |
| 30 | Pietro | 2,380 |
| 31 | Christian | 2,210 |
| 32 | Tommaso | 2,150 |
| 33 | Edoardo | 2,127 |
| 34 | Fabio | 2,095 |
| 35 | Manuel | 2,078 |
| 36 | Luigi | 1,932 |
| 37 | Alberto | 1,888 |
| 38 | Gianluca | 1,810 |
| 39 | Paolo | 1,806 |
| 40 | Domenico | 1,611 |
| 41 | Cristian | 1,574 |
| 42 | Jacopo | 1,560 |
| 43 | Roberto | 1,544 |
| 44 | Enrico | 1,450 |
| 45 | Angelo | 1,429 |
| 46 | Mario | 1,374 |
| 47 | Alex | 1,345 |
| 48 | Giorgio | 1,265 |
| 49 | Raffaele | 1,235 |
| 50 | Niccolo | 1,141 |