After all, de Blasio is a french name right?
His given name was Warren Wilhelm Jr.
Seig Heil!
ML/NJ
No. He uses his mother’s maiden name which is Italian. His birth name is actually William Willhelm.
The man who could become the city’s 109th mayor was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961, in Manhattan, his birth certificate shows.
In 1983, fresh out of New York University, he petitioned a Manhattan judge to formally change his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, according to legal records.
And in December 2001 he petitioned a judge in Brooklyn to formally change his name again, this time to Bill de Blasio.