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Baby names with Italian variants

Italian Australians are the second-largest non-Anglo ancestry, with deep post-WWII migration roots in Victoria and South Australia. Classic Italian names like Luca, Sofia and Matteo have entered the mainstream Top 100 across all states. Below: names with documented Italian variants from Wikidata, paired with their AU rankings.

151 baby names registered in Australia have documented Italian variants (🇮🇹) on Wikidata — useful when a Italian Australian community family wants a name that works in both English and Italian, or wants to know the Italian form of a common Aussie name.

Showing the top 60 by Australian BDM popularity — 36 boys' names, 24 girls'. This is not a list of names that originate in Italian culture; for those, browse by linguistic origin.

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