I had a few close relatives, uncles and aunts, with names like Rosa, Mary, Paul and Peter. Remember them fondly. So did many of my Italian friends in the Bronx. Must be an Italian thing.
How about Anunzio, Franny, Carmela, Anneilo, Antonio, etc? :)
Those are/were my aunts’/uncles’ last names..some of them at least.
Now, we just had a fourth generation child born and his name is....Cole :)
Things have changed culturally so much in my family from 40 years ago that I joke “instead of WOPs, everyone is acting like WASPs” :)
And those people are the salt of America. It is because of them that there is an America. A great people.
And we are all Americans now, even if we do refer to our heritages.
But the Italian flavor added to the melting pot was fun :)
And it is disappearing quickly.
My nephew didn’t even have the Tarantella played at his wedding.