Italian/Sicilian Names

[darkerhorse]

This is an interesting website for Italian/Sicilian names. especially the second panel.

http://www.conigliofamily.com/SicilianA ... nNames.htm

[MarcuccioV]

Very interesting. In my family, if they changed names to be Americanized they sought out totally different ones from their given names. Only one I noted aligned was "August" for Agostino (my grandfather). My grandmother just kept "Maria" her whole life...