How popular is the baby name Niccolo in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Niccolo.
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In 2023, the Southern European country of Italy welcomed 379,890 babies — 184,514 girls and 195,376 boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Sofia and Leonardo, yet again.
Here are Italy’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Sofia, 4,971 baby girls
Aurora, 4,648
Ginevra, 4,274
Vittoria, 4,194
Giulia, 3,732
Beatrice, 3,425 – pronounced beh-a-TREE-cheh
Ludovica, 3,157
Alice, 3,014 – pronounced a-LEE-cheh
Emma, 2,529
Matilde, 2,465
Anna, 2,128
Camilla, 2,091
Bianca, 1,992
Azzurra, 1,922
Chiara, 1,914 – pronounced KYAH-rah
Nicole, 1,792
Giorgia, 1,780
Isabel, 1,667
Greta, 1,635
Noemi, 1,439
Martina, 1,392
Arianna, 1,389
Gaia, 1,370
Sara, 1,368
Rebecca, 1,328
Viola, 1,325
Elena, 1,270
Ambra, 1,257
Chloe, 1,196 (tie)
Diana, 1,196 (tie)
Adele, 1,194
Mia, 1,192
Margherita, 1,095
Sole, 1,088 – pronounced SOH-leh
Francesca, 1,082
Cecilia, 1,060
Gioia, 1,018
Emily, 1,017
Marta, 964
Elisa, 953
Nina, 929
Lavinia, 912
Anita, 875
Amelia, 870
Eleonora, 853
Carlotta, 833
Maria, 803
Celeste, 788
Eva, 751
Giada, 735
Boy names
Leonardo, 7,096 baby boys
Edoardo, 5,603
Tommaso, 4,687
Francesco, 4,534
Alessandro, 4,383
Mattia, 4,349
Lorenzo, 4,006
Gabriele, 3,954
Riccardo, 3,600
Andrea, 3,333
Diego, 2,722
Giuseppe, 2,661
Matteo, 2,648
Enea, 2,564
Nicolò, 2,444
Antonio, 2,424
Federico, 2,313
Giovanni, 2,093
Filippo, 2,046
Samuele, 2,041
Pietro, 1,993
Giulio, 1,749
Gioele, 1,641 – pronounced jo-EH-leh
Davide, 1,597
Michele, 1,590
Christian, 1,541
Elia, 1,522
Gabriel, 1,497
Noah, 1,386
Marco, 1,353
Salvatore, 1,324
Liam, 1,236
Luca, 1,230
Vincenzo, 1,211
Thomas, 1,146
Emanuele, 1,100
Alessio, 1,056
Nathan, 1,007
Giorgio, 1,006
Samuel, 1,005
Jacopo, 1,002
Giacomo, 1,000
Ettore, 970
Raffael, 900
Daniele, 899
Simone, 892
Luigi, 886
Damiano, 830
Domenico, 818
Santiago, 798
The girls’ top 100 included Anastasia (57th), Sveva (75th), Mariasole (83rd), and Letizia (97th).
The boys’ top 100 included Ludovico (56th), Niccolò (66th), Brando (73rd), and Ciro (94th).
The girl name Azzurra (which is associated with Italy’s national soccer team gli Azzurri, “the Blues”) ranked 20th in both 2022 and 2021 before jumping to 12th place last year.
Speaking of soccer…I recently learned that Italian soccer star Francesco Totti (who played for AS Roma from 1993 to 2017) influenced baby names in Italy via the names of his three children:
The usage of Cristian rose after his son Cristian was born in November of 2005:
2006: 3,028 boys named Cristian (rank: 25th)
2005: 1,619 boys named Cristian (rank: 39th)
2004: 1,616 boys named Cristian (rank: 38th)
The usage of Chanel rose after his daughter Chanel was born in May of 2007:
2008: 158 girls named Chanel (rank: 189th)
2007: 63 girls named Chanel (rank: 314th)
2006: fewer than five girls named Chanel
The usage of Isabel rose after his daughter Isabel was born in March of 2016:
Though we remember him today as a West Coast rapper — one of his biggest hits was “California Love,” after all — Tupac Shakur was actually raised on the East Coast.
Tupac Shakur (pronounced TOO-pahk shah-KOOR) was born into a politically active family in New York City in 1971.
At birth, his given names were “Lesane Parish.” But his mother, Afeni, decided to change them to “Tupac Amaru” when he was one year old. The new names honored Túpac Amaru II, an indigenous man who led a rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru in the 1780s. (The names Tupac and Amaru are based on the Quechua words thupa, meaning “royal” or “resplendent,” and amaru, meaning “snake.”)
Tupac moved to California until the late 1980s. His first studio album, 2Pacalypse Now (1991), was a commercial success. It was followed by several more successful albums, including All Eyez on Me, which was rap’s first double album. Tupac also had a career as an actor, starring in films like Juice (1992), Poetic Justice (1993), and Above the Rim (1994).
Sadly, his life was cut short by a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996.
His years of fame, and his sudden death, resulted in all three of his names — Tupac, Amaru, and Shakur — seeing higher usage (as boy names) during the 1990s. Tupac debuted in the U.S. baby name data in 1993, and Amaru debuted in 1996. Shakur (which comes from the Arabic word for “thankful”) saw a 5-fold increase in usage from 1992 to 1993, followed by peak usage in 1997.
Tupac
Amaru
Shakur
1999
5
31
49
1998
10
24
81
1997
10
31
119†
1996
9
7*
87
1995
.
.
46
1994
.
.
79
1993
7*
.
66
1992
.
.
11
1991
.
.
.
*Debut, †Peak usage
But it doesn’t end there.
Tupac Shakur spent most of 1995 in prison. One of the books he read while there was the infamous 1513 political treatise The Prince (“…it is much safer to be feared than loved…”) by Florentine statesman and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (pronounced mah-kee-ah-VEH-lee).
The Prince inspired Tupac to create a new stage name: Makaveli. He only had a chance to use the alias once, though — for his fifth studio album, released two months after his murder. The following year, the unlikely name Makaveli popped up in the baby name data:
1999: unlisted
1998: unlisted
1997: 11 baby boys named Makaveli [debut]
1996: unlisted
1995: unlisted
(Interestingly, the original spelling of the name, Machiavelli, started appearing in the data in 2013 — exactly 500 years after The Prince was written.)
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 8, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 8-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “eights” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Wyatt correspond to the numbers 23, 25, 1, 20, and 20. The sum of these numbers is 89. The digits of 89 added together equal 17, and the digits of 17 added together equal 8 — the numerological value of Wyatt.
Baby names with a value of 8
Below you’ll find the most popular 8-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
8
The letters in the following baby names add up to 8.
Girl name (8)
Boy name (8)
Bea
Abe
8 via 17
The letters in the following baby names add up to 17, which reduces to eight (1+7=8).
Girl names (8 via 17)
Boy names (8 via 17)
Gia, Bo, Afia, Eabha, Cala
Bo, Mac, Cam, Md, Jeb
8 via 26
The letters in the following baby names add up to 26, which reduces to eight (2+6=8).
Girl names (8 via 26)
Boy names (8 via 26)
Leah, Maci, Jana, Pia, Dua, Gema, Calia, Brea, Cami
Eli, Bear, Bode, Obed, Asaad, Adil
8 via 35
The letters in the following baby names add up to 35, which reduces to eight (3+5=8).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number eight. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 8 being described as “successful,” “ambitious,” “organized,” “practical,” and “authoritative.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 8:
Figure 8
Infinity symbol
Analemma (diagram showing the position of the sun over the course of a year)
Figure-eight knot
Octopus (8 arms)
Spider (8 legs)
8-bit computing
8-track cartridge
Eight-ball (in pool)
Magic 8 Ball (fortune-telling toy)
Eight-ender (perfect score in the sport of curling)
What does the number 8 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and nine.
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