The Veneto is a name for the modern region in Northeast Italy of which the cities of which Verona, Vicenza, and Venice are a part. Venice is the modern, regional capital.
The source is a study of daily lives of middle class, merchant, families who rose to nobility status. The information came from tax records (estimi) and other legal documents, memoires and religious records. A majority of the families studied lived in the cities of Vicenza, Verona, and Venice in the 15th century, about 1425 to 1505.
The author included commentary about the naming practices and listed the names of the family members of the time and area. The author modernized the various spellings of the names to make it easier for the reader to track the book subjects (personal correspondence from the author). The source is Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto by James S. Grubb, 1996, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Names from a 13th century Vicentine tax list referred to the child, not saints or a relative, e.g., Benvenuto ('welcome'), Ognibene ('all good'), Chiarello ('little famous one'). There was a gradual move toward naming children after recently deceased relatives, called "remaking", for celestial protection or social alliances. Children could also be named to honor a saint, civic hero or a figure from ancient history.
Vicentine parents chose names from two groups: the patriarchs, apostles, or evangelists and names of recent saints.
Unlike the Tuscans, families from the Veneto area usually named their girls after female saints, rather than feminizing male saints' names. Because daughters weren't fully part of the paternal line, parents had some freedom to name girls after legendary, romance, or mythological characters.
A few children were given multiple given names. Some chose to drop one or two elements of their name but most kept the name they were given by their father at birth.
Ancient or pagan name occurrences were rare.
| Family name | City |
|---|---|
| Arnaldi | (Vicenza) |
| Bovi | (Verona) |
| dal Bovo | (Verona) |
| Cortusi | (Padua) |
| Feramosca | (Venice) |
| Fracastoro | (Verona) |
| Freschi | (Venice) |
| Guastaverza | (Venice) |
| Muronovo | (Verona) |
| Pindemonte | (Verona) |
| Repeta | (Verona) |
| da Romagno | (Venice) |
| Stoppi | (Verona) |
| Trento | (Venice) |
| Verità | (Verona) |
| Poeta Verità | (Unk.) |
| Volpe | (Vicenza) |
| Name | Number |
|---|---|
| Angela | 1 |
| Bartolomea | 1 |
| Bona | 1 |
| Cassandra | 2 |
| Caterina | 2 |
| Chiara | 1 |
| Elena | 1 |
| Giovanna | 1 |
| Gaspara | 1 |
| Isabella | 1 |
| Isabeta | 1 |
| Julia | 1 |
| Laura | 1 |
| Lucia | 2 |
| Lucrezia | 1 |
| Maddalena | 2 |
| Margarita | 1 |
| Maria | 2 |
| Martina | 1 |
| Paola | 2 |
| Tadea | 1 |
| Ursula | 1 |
| Valeria | 1 |
| Name | Number |
|---|---|
| Alessandro | 1 |
| Alvise | 2 |
| Andrea | 3 |
| Antonio | 5 |
| Aventino | 1 |
| Bartolomeo | 5 |
| Battista | 2 |
| Benedetto | 1 |
| Bonadomane | 1 |
| Bonaventura | 1 |
| Bonmartino | 1 |
| Bonzanino | 1 |
| Cardino | 1 |
| Contino | 1 |
| Demosthenes | 1 |
| Donato | 1 |
| Francesco | 4 |
| Gaboardo | 1 |
| Gabriele | 2 |
| Gaspare | 3 |
| Giacomo | 2 |
| Giorgio | 3 |
| Giovanni | 5 |
| Girolamo | 6 |
| Hector | 1 |
| Jacopo | 2 |
| Leonardo | 1 |
| Manfredo | 1 |
| Melchiorre | 1 |
| Michele | 2 |
| Nicolo | 1 |
| Ognibene | 1 |
| Pietro | 3 |
| Pliny | 1 |
| Renaldo | 1 |
| Ruggiero | 1 |
| Seneca | 1 |
| Silvestro | 1 |
| Tommaso | 2 |
| Tullio | 1 |
| Tullius | 1 |
| Verità | 2 |
Feminine given names are followed by (f).
Arnaldi
Alvise Giovanni
Andrea I & II (Giovanni Andrea Nicolo dropped his first and third name.)
Andrea Giovanni
Angela Chiara (f)
Antonio
Bartolomea (f)
Battista
Cassandra (f)
Caterina Chiara (f)
Chiara Julia Martina (f)
Gaspare I & II
Giovanna Gaspara (f)
Giovanni Francesco Bernardino
Girolamo
Isabeta (f)
Laura (f)
Lucia (f)
Maddalena (f)
Margarita Bona (f) (She later dropped the name Bona.)
Melchiorre
Michele
Paola Martina (f)
Pietro
Renaldo
Silvestro (Second name of Francesco dropped.)
Tommaso
Tommaso Salvatore
Ursula Imperatrice (f) Imperatrice was added later to honor the visit of an important person.)
Bovi
Bonaventura
Francesco I & II
Giorgio
Girolamo
Pietro
dal Bovo
Antonio
Bartolomeo
Giorgio
Giovanni
Cortusi
Ruggiero
Zuan
Maria Lucrezia (f)
Feramosca
Cardino
Nicolo
Lucia (f)
Isabella Maria (f)
Maria (f)
Fracastoro
Aventino
Maddalena (f)
Freschi
Zaccaria
Tadea (f)
Guastaverza
Bartolomeo
Battista
Girolamo
Jacopo
Ognibene
Muronovo
Bartolomeo
Bonadomane
Bonzanino
Elena (f)
Giovanni
Pierfilippo
Pindemonte
Demosthenes
Hector
Pliny
Seneca
Tullius
Repeta
Bartolomeo
Girolamo
Lucrezia (f)
Manfredo
Paola (f)
da Romagna
Antonio
Tullio
Stoppi
Alvise
Contino
Donato
Girolamo
Zuane
Trento
Antonio
Giacomo
Verità
Antonio
Bartolomeo
Benedetto
Bonmartino
Caterina (f)
Gabriele
Giacomo
Michele
Pietro
Verità I & II
Poeta Verità
Giovanni
Volpe
Francesco
Giovanni
Nicolo/Battista/Enea (He was known by all three names.).
Amia
Cassandra (several)
Claudia
Diamante
Diana, 1505
Faustina
Galatea, 1505
Ginevra
Isota
Laura
Medea
Pantasilea
Semiramide
Achillies [Achille]
Aurelius [Aurelio], 1505
Camillus (2) [Camillo], 1505
Caesar (2) [Cesare], 1505
Centurion [Centurione?]
Dionysis (3) [Dionisio], 1 in 1505
Eneas
Fabius [Fabio]
Hannibal [Annibale], 1505
Hippolytus [Ippolito]
Julius (2) [Iulio], 1505
Justus [Giusto]
Lactantius [Lattanzio?], 1505
Octavian (6) [Ottavio] 4 in 1505
Patricus [Patritio?]
Rigo, 1453, 1505
Tacitus [Tacito?]
Troilus [Troilo], 1505
Tullius [Tullio]
Ulysses [Ulisse], 1505
Valerius [Valerio]
Virgil [Virgilio]
Zanino, 1453, 1505 (May also be a derivative of Giovanni)