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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ethnically Italian here. I don’t think it’s a must, but it’s a privilege. I wish I had a second name.

You can use a cosmopolitan(or “Italo-cosmopolitan”) name as the middle one.

Giovanni Rocco, Ludovico Ivan, Vincenzo Luca, etc.[/quote]

OP here....All good options, but don't you want a second name to sound more American? Someone mentioned Asians, and yes I have noticed all my Asian friends gave their kids an  American name as the first and an Asian(-ish) as the middle [/quote]

Asians do it because Westerners often have a hard time pronouncing Asian names.  That's really not as big of a problem for Italian names.  I actually know a couple of Italian-Americans (Italian parents, kid born in the US) with the name Luca, for example, and no one has any problem with it.  Any Italian name that has a close American/English analog, like Marco, will be easy.  Americans are most likely to mispronounce sounds like "Ci" (so "Ciro" will get pronounced "SEAR-oh").  Our friend Francesco says people say his name right about half the time.  On the other hand, my kid has an Alessandro in her class and the kids have no problem pronouncing that.

And kids around here don't really make fun of other kids' names.  It's one benefit of being in a city with an international population -- people in DC are just used to names from all over the world.  [/quote]

OP here...I think we got traumatized by Trump presidency and an exposure to his intolerant  base.

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