Italian Dog Names

"A collection of great Italian Names."

Caio! If you've just adopted a Spinone, a Maltese, a Cane Corso or any other Italian breed you may want to consider an Italian name for your dog.

Or you may just want a name that says proudly Italian and celebrates your pride in your national identity. Either way, you'll find a ton of famous Italian names that will work really well for your dog.

Here are a few examples? What about?;

GALILEO: Honoring the great scientist and astronomer.

LEONARDO: In honor of the great painter and sculptor, Leonardo Da Vinci.

ZOFF: After Italy's great soccer goalkeeper, Dino Zoff.

There are lots more names like this on the list of Italian Dog names below. Just browse and pick, it's that easy.

p.s. Want to see just the names, without the detail? Click here to visit our Italian Puppy Names Quicklist.

ADAMO Giovanni Adamo, violinist

ADELINA Adelina Patti, opera singer

ADRIANA Adriana Volpe, model and TV presenter

ADRIANO Adriano Celentano, pop singer

AGONSTINI Giacomo Agostini, motorcycle racer

AGOSTINO Agostino Carracci, painter

ALBERTO Alberto Tomba, alpine skier

ALDO Aldo Moro, politician

ALFREDO Alfredo Catalani, opera composer

ALLESANDRO Alessandro Del Piero, footballer

AMEDEO Amedeo Modigliani, sculptor and painter

AMERIGO Amerigo Vespucci, explorer

ANDREA Andrea Bocelli, tenor

ANDRETTI Mario Andretti, F1 driver

ANGELO Angelo Bronzino, painter

ANTONIA Antonia Donatiello, poet and writer

ANTONIO Antonio Stradivari, luthier

AQUINAS Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian

ARMANDO Armando Pierucci, composer

ARMANI Giorgio Armani, fashion designer

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ARRIGO	Arrigo Boito, composer
ARTURO	Arturo Toscanini, orchestra conductor
ASSISI	Saint Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Animals
BAGGIO	Roberto Baggio, footballer
BENVENUTO	Benvenuto Cellini, painter and sculptor
BERNADO	Bernardo Bertolucci, filmaker
BIAGGI	Max Biaggi, motorcycle racer
BIANCA	Bianca Balti, model
BIANCHI	Luigi Bianchi, mathematician
BOSCO	John Bosco, Catholic priest, educator
BOSSI	Umberto Bossi, politician
BOTTICELLI	Sandro Botticelli, painter
BRUNO	Bruno de Finetti, mathematician, statistician
BUGATTI	Rembrandt Bugatti, sculptor
CAMPARI	Giuseppe Campari, racing driver
CAPRA	Frank Capra, filmaker
CARDUCCI	Giosue Carducci, poet
CARLO	Carlo Ancelotti, football player & manager
CARUSO	Enrico Caruso, tenor
CASANOVA	Giacomo Casanova, adventurer and womanizer

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CESARE Cesare Beccaria, philosopher and politician

CLAUDIO Claudio Monteverdi, composer

COLLINA Pierluigi Collina, football referee

COLOMBO Giuseppe Colombo, mathematician

CORRADO Corrado Gini, statistician

COZZI Luigi Cozzi, filmaker

CRISTINA Cristina Scabbia, rock singer

DA VINCI Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor and inventor

DANTE Dante Alighieri, poet

DARIO Dario Fo, dramatist and actor

DELIA Delia Scala, ballerina, actress

DINO Dino Buzzati, novelist and journalist

DONATELLO Donatello, artist

ECO Umberto Eco, writer

EMILIO Emilio Segre, physicist

ENRICO Enrico De Angelis, singer

ENZO Enzo Ferrari,founder of Ferrari

FABIO Fabio Cannavaro, footballer

FABRIZIO Fabrizio Accatino, cartoonist

FALCONE Giovanni Falcone, judge

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FAUSTO	Fausto Coppi, cyclist
FEDERICO	Federico Faggin, designed first microprocessor
FELICE	Felice Matteucci, co-inventor of the Internal combustion engine
FELLINI	Federico Fellini, filmaker
FONTANA	Carlo Fontana, architect
FRANCESCA	Francesca Martinez, model
FRANCESCO	Francesco Totti, footballer
FRANCO	Franco Malerba, astronaut
FRANKIE	Frankie Dettori, jockey
GABRIELE	Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, dramatist and adventurer
GAETANO	Gaetano Donizetti, composer
GALILEO	Galileo Galilei, astronomy pioneer and physicist
GARIBALDI	Giuseppe Garibaldi, proponent of Italian unification
GATTUSO	Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, footballer
GIANCARLO	Giancarlo Fisichella, F1 driver
GIANCOMO	Giacomo Carissimi, composer
GIANFRANCO	Gianfranco Fini, politician
GIANLUCA	Gianluca Zambrotta, footballer
GIANNI	Gianni Agnelli, industrialist
GIGLI	Beniamino Gigli, tenor

GINO	Gino Bartali, cyclist
GIOVANNI	Giovanni Guareschi, novelist and satirist
GIUSEPPE	Giuseppe Castiglione, painter
GORGIO	Giorgio Moroder, record producer, songwriter and performer
GRECO	Gioachino Greco, chess player
GUCCI	Mateo Gucci, architect and sculptor
GUIDO	Guido of Arezzo, inventor of modern musical notation
ISABELLA	Isabella Rossellini, actress
JACOMELLI	Iacopo Jacomelli, singer
LAURA	Laura Pausini, singer
LAZZARO	Lazzaro Spallanzani, biologist
LEO	Leo Levi, musicologist
LEONARDO	Leonardo Fibonacci, mathematician
LINA	Lina Cavalieri, opera singer
LISA	Lisa del Giocondo, namesake of the Mona Lisa
LORENZO	Lorenzo Bernardi, volleyball player
LOTTO	Lorenzo Lotto, painter
LUCA	Luca Pacioli, mathematician
LUCIA	Lucia Mannucci, singer
LUCIANO	Luciano Berio, composer

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LUCIO Lucio Battisti, singer-songwriter

LUIGI Luigi Pirandello, playwright

MALDINI Paolo Maldini, footballer

MARCELLO Marcello Malpighi, anatomist

MARCO Marco Polo, explorer

MARCONI Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the telegraph

MARIO Mario Cipollini, cyclist

MARTINI Alessandro Martini, founder of Martini & Rossi distillery

MASSIMO Massimo Troisi actor, director

MATTEO Matteo Thun, architect and designer

MAURIZIO Maurizio Pollini, pianist

MAURO Mauro Giuliani, composer

MICHELANGELO Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, sculptor, & architect

MILO Milo Manara, cartoonist

MONTE Guido Monte, writer

NEGRI Paolo Negri, jazz organist

NICCOLO Niccolo Piccinni, opera composer

NICOLA Nicola Abbagnano, philosopher

NINO Nino Benvenuti, boxer

NONO Luigi Nono, composer

ORIANA	Oriana Fallaci, journalist and author
PACINI	Giovanni Pacini, composer
PAGANINI	Niccolo Paganini, composer
PANNINI	Giovanni Paolo Pannini, painter and architect
PAOLO	Paolo Uccello, painter
PAVAROTTI	Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
PEPPINO	Peppino Gagliardi, singer
PIERO	Piero Sraffa, economist
PIETRO	Pietro Bembo, cardinal and poet
PRIMO	Primo Carnera, boxer
PUCCINI	Giacomo Puccini, composer
QUADRO	Giovanni Battista di Quadro
RAPHAEL	Raphael, (Raffaello Sanzio), painter
RENATA	Renata Tebaldi, soprano
RENATO	Renato Carosone, pop musician
RENZO	Renzo Piano, architect
RICCARDO	Riccardo Patrese, F1 racing driver
ROBERTO	Roberto Vittori, astronaut
ROMANO	Giulio Romano, painter
ROSSELLINI	Roberto Rossellini, filmaker

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ROSSI	Paolo Rossi, footballer
ROSSINI	Gioacchino Rossini, composer
RUGGERO	Ruggero Leoncavallo, opera composer
SABATINI	Rafael Sabatini, writer
SALVADOR	Salvador Luria, microbiologist
SALVATORE	Salvatore Accardo, violinist and conductor
SANDRO	Sandro Pertini, former president of Italy
SANTI	Santi di Tito, painter
SCARLATTI	Domenico Scarlatti, composer
SCARPA	Carlo Scarpa, architect
SERGIO	Sergio Leone, filmaker
SILVANA	Silvana Mangano, actress
SILVIO	Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister
SIMONE	Simone Martini, painter
STEFANO	Stefano Baldini, marathoner
TATA	Tata Giacobetti, singer
TAZIO	Tazio Nuvolari, racing driver
TITO	Tito Schipa, tenor
TOMMASO	Tommaso Marchesi, composer
TONI	Luca Toni, footballer

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TOTO	Actor and songwriter
TULLIO	Tullio Campagnolo, cyclist
UGO	Ugo Foscolo, writer
UMBERTO	Umberto Giordano, composer
VALENTINO	Valentino Rossi, motorcycle world champion
VALERIO	Valerio Evangelisti, science fiction writer
VASCO	Vasco Rossi, singer / songwriter
VENTURI	Giovanni Battista Venturi, physicist
VERONICA	Veronica Franco, poet and courtesan
VIALLI	Gianluca Vialli, footballer
VIERI	Christian Vieri, footballer
VINCENZO	Vincenzo Bellini, composer
VIRGILIO	Virgilio Savona, singer and songwriter
VITO	Vito Volterra, mathematician and physicist
VIVALDI	Antonio Vivaldi, composer
VIVIANO	Viviano Codazzi, painter
VOLTA	Alessandro Volta, electricity pioneer
ZANARDI	Alex Zanardi, racing driver
ZEFFIRELLI	Franco Zeffirelli, filmaker
ZOFF	Dino Zoff, footballer
ZOLA	Gianfranco Zola, footballer
ZUCCHERO	Zucchero, singer / songwriter