Top Names of 2001
The most popular names recorded in 2001 were Sara for girls and Francesco for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official ISTAT data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Sara | 8,254 |
| 2 | Chiara | 8,211 |
| 3 | Alessia | 8,147 |
| 4 | Giulia | 8,068 |
| 5 | Martina | 8,036 |
| 6 | Francesca | 6,957 |
| 7 | Gaia | 4,712 |
| 8 | Giorgia | 4,686 |
| 9 | Federica | 4,352 |
| 10 | Anna | 3,615 |
| 11 | Elisa | 3,525 |
| 12 | Sofia | 3,473 |
| 13 | Alice | 3,463 |
| 14 | Valentina | 3,078 |
| 15 | Aurora | 2,995 |
| 16 | Giada | 2,989 |
| 17 | Elena | 2,908 |
| 18 | Arianna | 2,609 |
| 19 | Beatrice | 2,498 |
| 20 | Ilaria | 2,496 |
| 21 | Laura | 2,399 |
| 22 | Alessandra | 2,353 |
| 23 | Silvia | 2,184 |
| 24 | Maria | 2,146 |
| 25 | Eleonora | 2,051 |
| 26 | Marta | 2,017 |
| 27 | Noemi | 1,976 |
| 28 | Camilla | 1,865 |
| 29 | Irene | 1,864 |
| 30 | Rebecca | 1,748 |
| 31 | Claudia | 1,692 |
| 32 | Roberta | 1,689 |
| 33 | Benedetta | 1,608 |
| 34 | Michela | 1,581 |
| 35 | Sabrina | 1,517 |
| 36 | Nicole | 1,485 |
| 37 | Veronica | 1,460 |
| 38 | Angela | 1,375 |
| 39 | Matilde | 1,373 |
| 40 | Ludovica | 1,364 |
| 41 | Greta | 1,359 |
| 42 | Serena | 1,357 |
| 43 | Valeria | 1,354 |
| 44 | Asia | 1,297 |
| 45 | Lucia | 1,258 |
| 46 | Simona | 1,250 |
| 47 | Erika | 1,248 |
| 48 | Caterina | 1,240 |
| 49 | Marika | 1,152 |
| 50 | Margherita | 1,132 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Francesco | 10,283 |
| 2 | Andrea | 9,731 |
| 3 | Matteo | 9,651 |
| 4 | Alessandro | 8,697 |
| 5 | Lorenzo | 8,240 |
| 6 | Luca | 7,023 |
| 7 | Marco | 6,485 |
| 8 | Simone | 6,222 |
| 9 | Davide | 5,840 |
| 10 | Giuseppe | 5,292 |
| 11 | Mattia | 5,159 |
| 12 | Gabriele | 5,036 |
| 13 | Riccardo | 4,834 |
| 14 | Antonio | 4,751 |
| 15 | Alessio | 4,531 |
| 16 | Federico | 4,432 |
| 17 | Giovanni | 4,036 |
| 18 | Michele | 3,547 |
| 19 | Daniele | 3,367 |
| 20 | Leonardo | 3,006 |
| 21 | Samuele | 2,836 |
| 22 | Filippo | 2,800 |
| 23 | Stefano | 2,662 |
| 24 | Pietro | 2,606 |
| 25 | Emanuele | 2,564 |
| 26 | Giacomo | 2,540 |
| 27 | Nicolo | 2,534 |
| 28 | Nicola | 2,506 |
| 29 | Salvatore | 2,503 |
| 30 | Tommaso | 2,498 |
| 31 | Vincenzo | 2,471 |
| 32 | Edoardo | 2,052 |
| 33 | Manuel | 2,026 |
| 34 | Christian | 2,018 |
| 35 | Luigi | 1,876 |
| 36 | Paolo | 1,841 |
| 37 | Alberto | 1,835 |
| 38 | Fabio | 1,779 |
| 39 | Cristian | 1,609 |
| 40 | Gianluca | 1,569 |
| 41 | Domenico | 1,549 |
| 42 | Angelo | 1,433 |
| 43 | Jacopo | 1,403 |
| 44 | Mario | 1,354 |
| 45 | Roberto | 1,265 |
| 46 | Enrico | 1,264 |
| 47 | Niccolo | 1,242 |
| 48 | Raffaele | 1,208 |
| 49 | Alex | 1,188 |
| 50 | Giorgio | 1,145 |