Top Names of 2002
The most popular names recorded in 2002 were Martina for girls and Francesco for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official ISTAT data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Martina | 9,173 |
| 2 | Giulia | 8,812 |
| 3 | Sara | 8,053 |
| 4 | Chiara | 7,524 |
| 5 | Alessia | 7,472 |
| 6 | Francesca | 6,378 |
| 7 | Giorgia | 4,775 |
| 8 | Sofia | 4,194 |
| 9 | Federica | 4,002 |
| 10 | Alice | 3,921 |
| 11 | Elisa | 3,785 |
| 12 | Gaia | 3,748 |
| 13 | Anna | 3,619 |
| 14 | Aurora | 3,326 |
| 15 | Giada | 3,235 |
| 16 | Elena | 2,969 |
| 17 | Valentina | 2,854 |
| 18 | Eleonora | 2,530 |
| 19 | Ilaria | 2,386 |
| 20 | Beatrice | 2,383 |
| 21 | Arianna | 2,341 |
| 22 | Laura | 2,237 |
| 23 | Alessandra | 2,077 |
| 24 | Marta | 1,967 |
| 25 | Noemi | 1,961 |
| 26 | Silvia | 1,938 |
| 27 | Maria | 1,904 |
| 28 | Camilla | 1,849 |
| 29 | Claudia | 1,819 |
| 30 | Irene | 1,751 |
| 31 | Matilde | 1,730 |
| 32 | Nicole | 1,703 |
| 33 | Benedetta | 1,662 |
| 34 | Rebecca | 1,582 |
| 35 | Asia | 1,536 |
| 36 | Michela | 1,478 |
| 37 | Valeria | 1,428 |
| 38 | Roberta | 1,422 |
| 39 | Serena | 1,363 |
| 40 | Veronica | 1,334 |
| 41 | Sabrina | 1,333 |
| 42 | Greta | 1,332 |
| 43 | Ludovica | 1,323 |
| 44 | Angela | 1,296 |
| 45 | Caterina | 1,209 |
| 46 | Lucia | 1,194 |
| 47 | Simona | 1,152 |
| 48 | Margherita | 1,078 |
| 49 | Marika | 1,076 |
| 50 | Angelica | 1,074 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Francesco | 10,284 |
| 2 | Andrea | 9,467 |
| 3 | Alessandro | 9,230 |
| 4 | Matteo | 8,929 |
| 5 | Lorenzo | 8,464 |
| 6 | Luca | 6,321 |
| 7 | Marco | 5,940 |
| 8 | Davide | 5,729 |
| 9 | Simone | 5,658 |
| 10 | Mattia | 5,587 |
| 11 | Gabriele | 5,371 |
| 12 | Giuseppe | 4,919 |
| 13 | Riccardo | 4,780 |
| 14 | Antonio | 4,422 |
| 15 | Federico | 4,383 |
| 16 | Alessio | 4,149 |
| 17 | Giovanni | 3,923 |
| 18 | Filippo | 3,888 |
| 19 | Leonardo | 3,487 |
| 20 | Daniele | 3,429 |
| 21 | Michele | 3,243 |
| 22 | Samuele | 3,003 |
| 23 | Tommaso | 2,759 |
| 24 | Emanuele | 2,689 |
| 25 | Stefano | 2,515 |
| 26 | Pietro | 2,453 |
| 27 | Nicola | 2,373 |
| 28 | Giacomo | 2,356 |
| 29 | Christian | 2,354 |
| 30 | Salvatore | 2,348 |
| 31 | Vincenzo | 2,338 |
| 32 | Nicolo | 2,315 |
| 33 | Edoardo | 2,213 |
| 34 | Manuel | 1,920 |
| 35 | Luigi | 1,771 |
| 36 | Fabio | 1,747 |
| 37 | Cristian | 1,634 |
| 38 | Paolo | 1,621 |
| 39 | Alberto | 1,556 |
| 40 | Domenico | 1,433 |
| 41 | Gianluca | 1,405 |
| 42 | Jacopo | 1,358 |
| 43 | Angelo | 1,283 |
| 44 | Mario | 1,244 |
| 45 | Enrico | 1,218 |
| 46 | Alex | 1,183 |
| 47 | Raffaele | 1,179 |
| 48 | Francesco Pio | 1,171 |
| 49 | Giorgio | 1,147 |
| 50 | Roberto | 1,122 |