Top Names of 2018
The most popular names recorded in 2018 were Sofia for girls and Leonardo for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official ISTAT data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Sofia | 6,400 |
| 2 | Giulia | 5,917 |
| 3 | Aurora | 5,862 |
| 4 | Alice | 3,741 |
| 5 | Ginevra | 3,688 |
| 6 | Emma | 3,481 |
| 7 | Giorgia | 3,251 |
| 8 | Greta | 3,043 |
| 9 | Beatrice | 3,030 |
| 10 | Anna | 2,762 |
| 11 | Martina | 2,758 |
| 12 | Chiara | 2,712 |
| 13 | Vittoria | 2,585 |
| 14 | Sara | 2,488 |
| 15 | Nicole | 2,461 |
| 16 | Matilde | 2,459 |
| 17 | Bianca | 2,346 |
| 18 | Ludovica | 2,290 |
| 19 | Camilla | 2,131 |
| 20 | Gaia | 2,106 |
| 21 | Noemi | 2,065 |
| 22 | Alessia | 1,825 |
| 23 | Arianna | 1,797 |
| 24 | Rebecca | 1,782 |
| 25 | Francesca | 1,774 |
| 26 | Mia | 1,665 |
| 27 | Elena | 1,624 |
| 28 | Viola | 1,519 |
| 29 | Adele | 1,486 |
| 30 | Giada | 1,399 |
| 31 | Marta | 1,344 |
| 32 | Elisa | 1,340 |
| 33 | Gioia | 1,334 |
| 34 | Isabel | 1,328 |
| 35 | Maria | 1,322 |
| 36 | Asia | 1,112 |
| 37 | Carlotta | 1,083 |
| 38 | Emily | 1,056 |
| 39 | Eleonora | 1,049 |
| 40 | Azzurra | 1,041 |
| 41 | Miriam | 1,030 |
| 42 | Melissa | 1,022 |
| 43 | Cecilia | 1,010 |
| 44 | Margherita | 969 |
| 45 | Anita | 932 |
| 46 | Benedetta | 928 |
| 47 | Caterina | 859 |
| 48 | Irene | 857 |
| 49 | Eva | 850 |
| 50 | Chloe | 843 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Leonardo | 7,690 |
| 2 | Francesco | 6,519 |
| 3 | Alessandro | 5,660 |
| 4 | Lorenzo | 5,566 |
| 5 | Mattia | 5,474 |
| 6 | Andrea | 5,016 |
| 7 | Gabriele | 4,721 |
| 8 | Riccardo | 4,456 |
| 9 | Tommaso | 4,181 |
| 10 | Edoardo | 3,776 |
| 11 | Matteo | 3,715 |
| 12 | Giuseppe | 3,217 |
| 13 | Nicolo' | 2,998 |
| 14 | Antonio | 2,942 |
| 15 | Federico | 2,917 |
| 16 | Diego | 2,885 |
| 17 | Davide | 2,673 |
| 18 | Giovanni | 2,655 |
| 19 | Christian | 2,492 |
| 20 | Pietro | 2,425 |
| 21 | Samuele | 2,308 |
| 22 | Filippo | 2,268 |
| 23 | Marco | 2,194 |
| 24 | Luca | 1,956 |
| 25 | Simone | 1,869 |
| 26 | Michele | 1,868 |
| 27 | Alessio | 1,752 |
| 28 | Gabriel | 1,747 |
| 29 | Giulio | 1,649 |
| 30 | Salvatore | 1,635 |
| 31 | Gioele | 1,559 |
| 32 | Emanuele | 1,536 |
| 33 | Vincenzo | 1,532 |
| 34 | Thomas | 1,476 |
| 35 | Giacomo | 1,447 |
| 36 | Jacopo | 1,401 |
| 37 | Cristian | 1,367 |
| 38 | Samuel | 1,347 |
| 39 | Daniele | 1,339 |
| 40 | Enea | 1,337 |
| 41 | Manuel | 1,328 |
| 42 | Elia | 1,308 |
| 43 | Giorgio | 1,163 |
| 44 | Daniel | 1,082 |
| 45 | Luigi | 1,064 |
| 46 | Stefano | 1,015 |
| 47 | Nicola | 943 |
| 48 | Domenico | 918 |
| 49 | Raffaele | 904 |
| 50 | Nathan | 890 |