italian girls name needed

I am due next week and don't have a name ready, please help! I really want an Italian girls name that is not too unusual for people in England to say as my nan was Italian. It has taken me 9 months to convince my husband to have an Italian name as he wants something simple, any ideas?

I love the name Graziella, but because it sounded too italian (and we're not italian!) we went for Gabriella instead.

I knew a Graziella in high school. She said it GRAT-ZIella.

Congratulations and well done for persuading your husband to go for an Italian name cos they're beautiful names. Heres a few I thought of for you:
Adrina
Bianca
Camilla
Cosima
Gemma
Isabella
Francesca nn Jess/Fran
Kara
Leona
Leonora nn Leo/Nora
Loretta
Lucia
Luna
Mirella
Natalia
Rosetta nn Rose/Etta
Sarafina nn SARA
Sienna
Verona
Viola
Viviana
Most of these are easy to pronounce, and people wil pretty much know how to spell them too.

I'm Italian, too! I Love Italian names! We have some good ones in my family. I'll include them below ;) If you like a few of them, I would then check out their meanings. Some of them are really nice!
* are my favs :)

Gianna*
Giovanna
Anna (pron. AAH-na)*
Rosa
Lucia (Lou-chi-a or Lou-sha)
Sophia
Alessia*
Amalia*
Angelina
Aria*
Ariana
Batista
Bellezza
Bianca*
Carina*
Carmela
Chiara
Clarina
Clarissa
Eleonora*
Fiammetta
Francesca*
Gemma
Genoa
Genoviva
Giada *
Giordana
Giuliana*
Giulietta*
Honora*
Liliana*
Luciana*
Maddalena
Micaela*
Niccola*
Milana*
Pietra
Rosemund
Sarita
Silva
Silvia
Federica
Venitia
Violetta*
Viviana*

This is my favorite Nameberry thread yet!!

I LOVE Italian names! Below are some of my favorites:

Aria (melody)
Annata (year's time)
Chiara (clear)
Cadenza (cadence)
Lucia (light)
Ellera (ivy)
Allegra (cheery)
Aurora (dawn)
Trina (lace)
Mira (aim)

And my favorite Italian variants:
Alessia (Alexis)
Josephina
Maddalena
Elena
Tessa - I've always thought of this as Italian, but nameberry doesn't consider it Italian ...

Good luck!

I love love love Italian girls names!

My favs are:

Alessa
Alessia
Allegra
Chiara
Delfina
Elettra
Eliana
Eloisa
Emilia
Evelina
Francesca
Lelia
Livia
Lucia
Noemi
Ottavia
Sabina -- one of my best friends names so I know it works well in England ;)
Vittoria

Some that are used in both England and Italy (just with different prn sometimes):

Adele
Adelina
Adriana
Alice (ah-LEE-cheh in Italian)
Anna
Annabella
Antonia
Arianna
Aurelia
Beatrice (bee-a-TREE-che in Italian)
Camilla
Cecilia (che-CHEE-lyah in Italian)
Celeste (che-LES-te)
Clara
Delia
Diana
Elisa (Italian sp)
Emma
Eva
Flora
Gemma
Gloria
Isabella
Jessica
Laura
Lidia (Italian sp of Lydia)
Luisa
Maria
Marisa
Miriam
Mirabella
Romola
Rosabella
Serena
Silvia (Italian sp)
Sofia (Italian sp)
Susana
Teresa
Viola
Virginia

So funny that you should ask this... just yesterday I added an Italian name to my list. I met a little girl yesterday, so beautiful (Itallian father and Asian mother) and spirited, and I subsequently thought, "What a beautiful name!" Don't hear of it often, in fact, haven't spotted it on this forum... but her name's Contessa. I checked and it means, a titled woman, a countess.

What was your grandmother's name, may I ask?

Got this off 20000-names.com... other italian names and their meanings that I like.

AMEDEA: Feminine form of Italian Amadeo, meaning "to love God."
ANJELICA: Variant spelling of Italian Angelica, meaning "angelic."
BETTINA: Pet form of Italian Benedetta, meaning "blessed."
COSIMA: Feminine form of Italian Cosimo, meaning "order, beauty."
ELETTRA: Italian form of Latin Electra, meaning "bright, shining."
INES: Italian form of English Agnes, meaning "chaste; holy."
LEONORA: Short form of Italian Eleonora, meaning "foreign; the other."
MARGHERITA: Italian form of Latin Margarita, meaning "pearl."
SONIA: Italian and Portuguese form of Russian Sonya, meaning "wisdom." 

Hope this helps! Congrats on your baby!!!!!

What about Italian place names? My favorties are:

Italia(nnTali or Talia)
Capri
Verona

You could also use

Venetia
Florence
Firenze
Tuscany
Roma
Sicily
Milan
Lucca

I like Antonia lately, my great-grandmother's name. She was called Antonina. I love Nina for a nickname also.

Other Italian names I find very easy to mingle in the English-speaking world, with some Italian flair (some are already familiar in usage, I think):
Adriana
Alessandra
Amalia or Amelia
Bettina (the Italian is a variation of Benedetta, not Elizabeth)
Camilla
Carlotta
Cecilia or Celia
Clara
Claudia
Christiana
Elena
Emilia (different root origin than Amelia)
Eugenia
Faustina - kind of different!
Feliciana
Francesca
Gabriella
Giada
Gisella
Gloria
Iolanda
Laelia or Lelia
Laura
Leonora
Liana (short form of names that end in -liana - can be used for a full name)
Lidia
Liliana
Lina (short form of names that end in -lina - can be used as full name)
Livia
Lora (variant of Laura; also short form of Eleonora or Loredana - can be used as full name)
Loredana - not essentially an Italian name. There is a Loredan surname in Italy, but the name was "invented" by George Sand, and then sort of caught on (not sure how much). It is pretty though.
Lucia
Luciana
Maddelena
Marianna
Mariella
Marisa
Martina
Melania
Natalia
Nicolina
Paola
Patrizia
Perla (wow, I love this!)
Regina
Rosa
Rosabella
Rosangela
Rosaria
Sabrina
Sara
Savina
Sebastiana
Serena
Silvana
Sofia
Susana
Teodora
Teresa
Tiziana
Tullia
Valeria
Vitalia
Viviana

That's a lot! I had fun making this list, I hope you can find something you like, all the ladies make fantastic suggestions. These are just the ones I thought were beautiful (to me). Unmistakenly Italian, some of them more exotic and others more subtle and commonly heard in the English-speaking countries.