The world behind your Italian name

Naming a child is usually one of two things: a matter of trends or a matter of tradition. Every year, parents all over the world let celebrities and VIPs inspire their choices, just as it happened in 2017, when “Rumi”  became a top 100 girls’ name after Beyoncé used it for one of her twins. Sometimes parents make more curious choices – think of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s children, for instance – or even let TV show inspire them: in the 1990s, legends say, quite a few “Brandon” and “Brenda”  were born in Italy, after the success of the first series of Beverly Hills 90210.Italy, however,  is a country where the majority of parents favor tradition over novelty, often naming their children after relatives  and saints, or digging even deeper into the history of the country and choosing Roman patronymics, as attested by the many Giulia, Giulio, Lucrezia and Cesar walking our streets.