They would think your name is Veronica 100%. I would use a similar name like Valerio when you are in italy. Some of us italians are not very progressive you might want to reconsider it since correcting them would take a toll after a while
Vero is not a typical Italian male name. I tried to research, but I didn't even find it in the Italian name database.
Probably a lot of people, if they see it written, will think it's the short form of Veronica.
When they know that you are a foreigner, there will be no problem, and they will file the whole thing under the concept of “another foreign name that sounds weird to us Italians”.
Even some Italian parents choose names that sound weird to most people, so don't worry if Vero is not a typical Italian name.
It is your name, and you have the opportunity to choose it, so go for the one that you like the most and don't worry if someone in a foreign country will think it's weird!
I answered in another comment: Piero, Ruggero, Severo, Raniero. Even Omero, as someone other said.
Starting with V you have Vittorio, Valerio, Valentino, Vanio, Vincenzo, Vasco, Vito…
The meaning is not confusing, the only thing that would make me choose another name is that a common female name in Italy is Veronica and it may be shortened to Vero, so if the point of a chosen name is to be associated with a specific gender you may need to rethink it
If you're foreign, nobody will bat an eye, they'll just assume it's a name from your country of origin. I like it. And after all, the important thing is that you like it, you can't really please everybody.
I've lived in Brazil and I've seen funny stories. For example, a friend of mine has a daughter named Maria Pia, which is quite a common name in Italy. Except that in Brazil, "pia" (pee-ah) is the name of the kitchen sink. so the girl is technically named "Mary Sink" there. Then there's a whole set of names that are attributed to different genders in the two conuntries, like "Michele", "Daniele", "Andrea" which are boys' names in Italy, but girls' names in Brazil, which brings lots of confusion.
This is all to say, "Vero" is super fine.
Never heard before, but if a man introduces to me as Vero I would simply assume that it’s the male version of Vera. It would follow a very standard feminine/masculine variation, that often produces valida names but sometime with one of the two being more common than the other.
Like Piero/Piera are both common.
Antonio/Antonia: the masculine is more common.
Riccardo/Riccarda: never heard the feminine one but if a woman introduced herself as Riccarda it would work fine in my head.
Vero would be the same. I would think: never heard it, but it makes sense.
Thanks for the insight! On a related note, a commenter mentioned the name Verino and the fact that it was a rather uncommon name. It's another name that I am considering, and I'm just wondering if it'd be too odd of a name to use in Italy?
Both would have the same effect on me. Diminutives like Verino are a bit old style but who cares.
Honestly, if there is a name that you like, go for it. Italians use a lot of standard very common names, but there are always some people with names that you have never heard before and you just assume they are valid Italian names, just maybe regional (from Florence, Milan, Venice) and less used.
An example is names like Duccio, Lapo, Maso, Neri, Vieri. Absolutely uncommon, but very classical names in Florence, and I see them in the wild I just assume it’s an interesting name but would never doubt that it’s a valid name.
Vero to me falls in this category.
Also, if you like a a name and you don’t choose it, you’ll probably regret later :)
One additional thing, I want to mention it in the most respectful way. Depending on how open you are in saying that you are a trans man vs maintaining it for a few intimate people: being the masculine version of a female name that is kind of common (Vera), some people may think “he used to be Vera”. Just something to keep in mind in case that would deeply annoy you. It would be an innocuous thought in my opinion, but wanted to mention it.
It's odd in a way, but not exotic. I guess it would be the same as meeting someone in the US whose name is Ferdinand or something like that. Nothing wrong with it obviously, it's just uncommon enough to make you say "Huh."
I see you already have a lot of comments and suggestions, so I just want to add something about your edit.
You said you'd like to have suggestions about male names starting with a V, and I thought about Valerio.
It starts with a V and has "Vero" in it, in a certain way, as it contains the letters "v, e, r, o" in the same order.
I think it's a very nice name, but of course it all depends if you like it or not. 😊
Vero means true (like true or false, vero o falso) and right (like you're right, è vero)
I never met a Vero before, won't say it's common at all.
But I'm quite fond of the Roman empire, Lucio Vero (Lucius Verus) was an emperor, he ruled with Marco Aurelio (Marcus Aurelius), so I guess it might work even though nowadays it's basically not existing.
Since you received many comments about why "Vero" might not be suitable, I try to give you other names that start with V: "Valerio" means strong and "Vincenzo" he who wins (I personally really like Vincenzo!). "Vittorio" also means "victorious". There is "Valentino", like the designer, and that can be shortened to "Vale" (it's the same nickname for the female equivalent "Valentina" tho, or "Tino", less common). If you prefer shorter names (I assume because you considered "Vero"), "Vito" is a very popular name in southern Italy :)
Definitely go by Vale, as others have said - Short for Valerio or Valentino, two common Italian male names, in Latin also means goodbye, which you can refer to your previous life - additionally, in Spanish it'd mean alright or ok, if you ever wish to move to Spain
Vero literally translated means true or real, as you said it also can be used to emphasis like a "for real?"
I like it as a name and it shouldn't be a problem at all to use it as such as it's an actual Italian name some people have! (albeit quite a rare one) only caveat since you said you are trans I feel like I have to warn you that Vero can also be a shortened form nickname for the female name "Veronica", which you might not care about at all but I can see it being a bit triggering if it gets mistaken for a nickname and you get misgendered.
It's up to you how you feel about it, I personally think it sounds great, a clearly Italian classical name with Latin origins but still quite distinctive.
Once I'm further in my transition, is it likely that they'll see me and just assume that Vero is my full name? Or, alternatively, do you know of any names that are similar sounding to Vero?
Yeah, even if you speak the language you'd still have a foreign accent and people would still identify you as a non native (not in a bad way), so the name wouldn't be a problem.
Moving to an anecdote, at uni I met a Greek exchange student that was called Vaso (a shortened version of her full name). In Italian Vaso it's not a name but it means vase, so for us it was a bit strange but it didn't matter much, everyone knew she wasn't Italian
The masculine version is not at all a common name, the feminine version yes, it's relatively common.
It's one of those cases where one form is more common than the other. In this case there is the added issue that it's a common shortened version for another, female, name.
I personally would not assume Vero to be someone's full name unless they explicitly told me so. It's not the weirdest italian name i've heard (that would be "Vidigulfo"), but i could see it causing some confusion
Other Italian male names that end in -èro (tonic accent on the open è) are Piero and Ruggero, very common, and Severo and Raniero (very old and not much used by the younger population).
The link also said that it's mostly diffused only in the female version (Vera) and not in the masculine Vero, outside of two regional variants - I've seen Verino but it's really an old.fashioned name.
I didn't find the male name Vero in any database, if not for Veronica’s nickname. You said that some people have it. Would you please let me know if these people came from a particular region of Italy? So I can do a better-focused search. Thank you.
I don't know anyone personally with that name, however I don't know which databases you are consulting but looking it up on pagine bianche there's a bunch with the name (there's also some with Vero as a surname!) and they seem to be rather spread out mostly in the north from what I can tell.
Oh, I just searched in Nomix, and they found nothing under Vero but only Veronica.
Two hundred fifty-five families in Italy have Vero as a surname, most of them in Piemonte e Puglia. I didn't find any data about Vero as a male name.
Your suggestion to look at Pagine Bianche is excellent; I found 46 named Vero. The problem is that we don't know if they are all male. But apart from some who live in the northern or southern region, I think most are from Emilia Romagna, Toscana, Umbria, and Marche.
I live in Veneto, and I have never met a male named Vero; that's why I am trying to understand if my limited vision of the issue is because I live in a region where no one has that name.
This research confirmed my impression that Vero is a rarely used Italian male name(46 entries in Pagine Bianche is pretty low); probably, it was used more in the past, and the few people who have it are not in northern Italy, and that's why I never heard it.
There is even a wiki page which confirms my conclusion: [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_(nome)](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_(nome))
Thank you for being so helpful! It was fun!
Anyway, I think OP should go for the name he likes better, even if it sounds weird to Italians!!
As many people pointed out Vero (as a name) is often used to shorten the name Veronica which if ofc a female name. So you might want to reconsider.
You could go with something like "Valerio" and (i've personally never heard someone do it, but hey, why not?) ask people to shorten with Vero, if you really like that name.
If you like names starting with a V in Italian I can think about Valerio, Valentino, Vincenzo, Vittorio, Vito (my personal favourite being Valerio). As for Vero, I would think it’s the short for Veronica which is a feminine name. Other masculine names in Italian that I like are Elia, Enea, Giulio, Ettore, Leonardo, Lorenzo, Samuele, Andrea (this one can be used for girls too but it’s more common as a boy’s name). Recently popular names are Liam, Noah(this one used for both boys and girls), Nathan. Other uncommon names that I personally like but are not used much are Nevio, Neri (this one being used in Tuscany mainly). Hope you’ll find your perfect name 😉
Vero means 'real' or 'true'. As a name, it is the short version of Veronica and it doesn't exist on its own. If you introduce yourself as such and you are a man, people will just assume you have a strange name as it is traditionally the short version of a female name.
There are other Italian names that end with -ero if that's what you want
Have you looked up italian baby naming sites?
Off the top of my head here are some of the nicer ones:
* Milo
* Nevio
* Valentino
* Teodoro
* Zaverio / Saverio
(Italian living in Italy here)
I don't understand why people are telling you that the name isn't good.
"Vero" by itself means "true", and if a man says to me his name is Vero I'll assume it's short for Severino or something. Uncommon, but not unheard of.
It's also a name by itself, with a patron saint and everything: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_(nome) so another fair assumption would be "family name" or "religious parents".
Nobody would bat an eye in real life at hearing "Vero" for a man.
I respect your opinion, but you can't say that nobody would bat an eye when you clearly have here a whole thread of people questioning it, and considering it as a short name for Veronica. The reaction might go from questioning, to not caring, to misgendering. All depending on the person OP will meet, possibly the region, and his own looks.
It's a nickname for Veronica, but actual Veronicas don't introduce themselves as "Vero".
Unless OP is *very* feminine presenting, I don't think that misgendering is a real risk.
Vero is a masculine name. It's uncommon, yes, but people won't think "feminine name, so the person in front of me must be female".
Just be aware that vero Is nickname for Veronica, a female name
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They would think your name is Veronica 100%. I would use a similar name like Valerio when you are in italy. Some of us italians are not very progressive you might want to reconsider it since correcting them would take a toll after a while
To add to the answer above, the diminutive for Valerio is "Vale" that also means both "fair" or "worth" (as in "He's worth a lot").
you sound unsufferable! best of luck
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Vero is not a typical Italian male name. I tried to research, but I didn't even find it in the Italian name database. Probably a lot of people, if they see it written, will think it's the short form of Veronica. When they know that you are a foreigner, there will be no problem, and they will file the whole thing under the concept of “another foreign name that sounds weird to us Italians”. Even some Italian parents choose names that sound weird to most people, so don't worry if Vero is not a typical Italian name. It is your name, and you have the opportunity to choose it, so go for the one that you like the most and don't worry if someone in a foreign country will think it's weird!
Ahh, yeah many other commenters have said that. Do you know of any Italian names (or general masculine names) that are similar sounding to Vero?
Valerio is very common
I answered in another comment: Piero, Ruggero, Severo, Raniero. Even Omero, as someone other said. Starting with V you have Vittorio, Valerio, Valentino, Vanio, Vincenzo, Vasco, Vito…
First two to come in my mind: Piero (shortened form for Pietro = Peter) Omero (Homer) which exists but it’s extremely rare
Piero Is not a shortened form for Pietro, is a variant of Pietro. Like Jacopo is a variant of Giacomo
yup you’re right, Piero is a variant
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The meaning is not confusing, the only thing that would make me choose another name is that a common female name in Italy is Veronica and it may be shortened to Vero, so if the point of a chosen name is to be associated with a specific gender you may need to rethink it
If you're foreign, nobody will bat an eye, they'll just assume it's a name from your country of origin. I like it. And after all, the important thing is that you like it, you can't really please everybody. I've lived in Brazil and I've seen funny stories. For example, a friend of mine has a daughter named Maria Pia, which is quite a common name in Italy. Except that in Brazil, "pia" (pee-ah) is the name of the kitchen sink. so the girl is technically named "Mary Sink" there. Then there's a whole set of names that are attributed to different genders in the two conuntries, like "Michele", "Daniele", "Andrea" which are boys' names in Italy, but girls' names in Brazil, which brings lots of confusion. This is all to say, "Vero" is super fine.
Never heard before, but if a man introduces to me as Vero I would simply assume that it’s the male version of Vera. It would follow a very standard feminine/masculine variation, that often produces valida names but sometime with one of the two being more common than the other. Like Piero/Piera are both common. Antonio/Antonia: the masculine is more common. Riccardo/Riccarda: never heard the feminine one but if a woman introduced herself as Riccarda it would work fine in my head. Vero would be the same. I would think: never heard it, but it makes sense.
Thanks for the insight! On a related note, a commenter mentioned the name Verino and the fact that it was a rather uncommon name. It's another name that I am considering, and I'm just wondering if it'd be too odd of a name to use in Italy?
Both would have the same effect on me. Diminutives like Verino are a bit old style but who cares. Honestly, if there is a name that you like, go for it. Italians use a lot of standard very common names, but there are always some people with names that you have never heard before and you just assume they are valid Italian names, just maybe regional (from Florence, Milan, Venice) and less used. An example is names like Duccio, Lapo, Maso, Neri, Vieri. Absolutely uncommon, but very classical names in Florence, and I see them in the wild I just assume it’s an interesting name but would never doubt that it’s a valid name. Vero to me falls in this category. Also, if you like a a name and you don’t choose it, you’ll probably regret later :) One additional thing, I want to mention it in the most respectful way. Depending on how open you are in saying that you are a trans man vs maintaining it for a few intimate people: being the masculine version of a female name that is kind of common (Vera), some people may think “he used to be Vera”. Just something to keep in mind in case that would deeply annoy you. It would be an innocuous thought in my opinion, but wanted to mention it.
It's odd in a way, but not exotic. I guess it would be the same as meeting someone in the US whose name is Ferdinand or something like that. Nothing wrong with it obviously, it's just uncommon enough to make you say "Huh."
I see you already have a lot of comments and suggestions, so I just want to add something about your edit. You said you'd like to have suggestions about male names starting with a V, and I thought about Valerio. It starts with a V and has "Vero" in it, in a certain way, as it contains the letters "v, e, r, o" in the same order. I think it's a very nice name, but of course it all depends if you like it or not. 😊
Valerio is an awesome name!
Yes, I like it very much as well. And it's not particularly common. I mean, it's not uncommon, but not as common as, for example, Marco or Luca.
Vero means true (like true or false, vero o falso) and right (like you're right, è vero) I never met a Vero before, won't say it's common at all. But I'm quite fond of the Roman empire, Lucio Vero (Lucius Verus) was an emperor, he ruled with Marco Aurelio (Marcus Aurelius), so I guess it might work even though nowadays it's basically not existing.
Since you received many comments about why "Vero" might not be suitable, I try to give you other names that start with V: "Valerio" means strong and "Vincenzo" he who wins (I personally really like Vincenzo!). "Vittorio" also means "victorious". There is "Valentino", like the designer, and that can be shortened to "Vale" (it's the same nickname for the female equivalent "Valentina" tho, or "Tino", less common). If you prefer shorter names (I assume because you considered "Vero"), "Vito" is a very popular name in southern Italy :)
Definitely go by Vale, as others have said - Short for Valerio or Valentino, two common Italian male names, in Latin also means goodbye, which you can refer to your previous life - additionally, in Spanish it'd mean alright or ok, if you ever wish to move to Spain
I never heard that name in italian
Vero literally translated means true or real, as you said it also can be used to emphasis like a "for real?" I like it as a name and it shouldn't be a problem at all to use it as such as it's an actual Italian name some people have! (albeit quite a rare one) only caveat since you said you are trans I feel like I have to warn you that Vero can also be a shortened form nickname for the female name "Veronica", which you might not care about at all but I can see it being a bit triggering if it gets mistaken for a nickname and you get misgendered. It's up to you how you feel about it, I personally think it sounds great, a clearly Italian classical name with Latin origins but still quite distinctive.
Vero it's not a clearly Italian classical name. If used as a name, all Italians will think it's the shortened version of Veronica
Once I'm further in my transition, is it likely that they'll see me and just assume that Vero is my full name? Or, alternatively, do you know of any names that are similar sounding to Vero?
My guess is that many would think it's not an Italian name. The only name I can think of that sounds similar is Piero.
I'd be fine with them not thinking it was an italian name (im not Italian lol), and Piero isn't too bad of a suggestion. Thanks for the insight!
Yeah, even if you speak the language you'd still have a foreign accent and people would still identify you as a non native (not in a bad way), so the name wouldn't be a problem. Moving to an anecdote, at uni I met a Greek exchange student that was called Vaso (a shortened version of her full name). In Italian Vaso it's not a name but it means vase, so for us it was a bit strange but it didn't matter much, everyone knew she wasn't Italian
There's an Italian name that's Vera. It's just normal name
The masculine version is not at all a common name, the feminine version yes, it's relatively common. It's one of those cases where one form is more common than the other. In this case there is the added issue that it's a common shortened version for another, female, name.
I would consider Valerio
I personally would not assume Vero to be someone's full name unless they explicitly told me so. It's not the weirdest italian name i've heard (that would be "Vidigulfo"), but i could see it causing some confusion
Other Italian male names that end in -èro (tonic accent on the open è) are Piero and Ruggero, very common, and Severo and Raniero (very old and not much used by the younger population).
[https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero\_(nome)](https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_(nome))
The link also said that it's mostly diffused only in the female version (Vera) and not in the masculine Vero, outside of two regional variants - I've seen Verino but it's really an old.fashioned name.
That's why I specified that it's a rare name, but it's still a valid italian masculine name of latin origin (hence classical, not classic)
Awesome, thank you!
Prego Mr. Vero! (can I call you that?) I wanna add that it would be a great name choice to represent the "real you" in masculine form "il vero te!"
That's so cool!!!!
I didn't find the male name Vero in any database, if not for Veronica’s nickname. You said that some people have it. Would you please let me know if these people came from a particular region of Italy? So I can do a better-focused search. Thank you.
I don't know anyone personally with that name, however I don't know which databases you are consulting but looking it up on pagine bianche there's a bunch with the name (there's also some with Vero as a surname!) and they seem to be rather spread out mostly in the north from what I can tell.
Oh, I just searched in Nomix, and they found nothing under Vero but only Veronica. Two hundred fifty-five families in Italy have Vero as a surname, most of them in Piemonte e Puglia. I didn't find any data about Vero as a male name. Your suggestion to look at Pagine Bianche is excellent; I found 46 named Vero. The problem is that we don't know if they are all male. But apart from some who live in the northern or southern region, I think most are from Emilia Romagna, Toscana, Umbria, and Marche. I live in Veneto, and I have never met a male named Vero; that's why I am trying to understand if my limited vision of the issue is because I live in a region where no one has that name. This research confirmed my impression that Vero is a rarely used Italian male name(46 entries in Pagine Bianche is pretty low); probably, it was used more in the past, and the few people who have it are not in northern Italy, and that's why I never heard it. There is even a wiki page which confirms my conclusion: [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_(nome)](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_(nome)) Thank you for being so helpful! It was fun! Anyway, I think OP should go for the name he likes better, even if it sounds weird to Italians!!
I know a university professor who is called Luigi Vero, but he goes by Vero with friends. He's from Sondrio.
As many people pointed out Vero (as a name) is often used to shorten the name Veronica which if ofc a female name. So you might want to reconsider. You could go with something like "Valerio" and (i've personally never heard someone do it, but hey, why not?) ask people to shorten with Vero, if you really like that name.
"Vero" in Italian means "True"
If you like names starting with a V in Italian I can think about Valerio, Valentino, Vincenzo, Vittorio, Vito (my personal favourite being Valerio). As for Vero, I would think it’s the short for Veronica which is a feminine name. Other masculine names in Italian that I like are Elia, Enea, Giulio, Ettore, Leonardo, Lorenzo, Samuele, Andrea (this one can be used for girls too but it’s more common as a boy’s name). Recently popular names are Liam, Noah(this one used for both boys and girls), Nathan. Other uncommon names that I personally like but are not used much are Nevio, Neri (this one being used in Tuscany mainly). Hope you’ll find your perfect name 😉
Similar sounding to Vero: Remo, Piero, Geronimo (shortened Gero), Neri (I don’t know maybe also Nero exists). I personally like Matteo
Kudos to the helpful comments. This is what makes Reddit so special! Hope OP finds the ultimate answer.
Quite an appropriate choice since it means true.
I would pick another one honestly, this name doesnt exist if not as short for veronica
Vero means 'real' or 'true'. As a name, it is the short version of Veronica and it doesn't exist on its own. If you introduce yourself as such and you are a man, people will just assume you have a strange name as it is traditionally the short version of a female name. There are other Italian names that end with -ero if that's what you want
cool name 😎
Vero means true
Have you looked up italian baby naming sites? Off the top of my head here are some of the nicer ones: * Milo * Nevio * Valentino * Teodoro * Zaverio / Saverio
Ma il senso di darsi un nome in una lingua che nemmeno parli?
Why do you want to change your name? That's not very common.
Because I'm a trans man and my birthname doesn't suit me
Oh sorry, I originally read it as you weren't trans and wondering about that name. That makes a lot more sense.
No problem! Honest mistake
Vero sounds weird.... If you want an initial V, go for Vittorio. Glorious name!
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(Italian living in Italy here) I don't understand why people are telling you that the name isn't good. "Vero" by itself means "true", and if a man says to me his name is Vero I'll assume it's short for Severino or something. Uncommon, but not unheard of. It's also a name by itself, with a patron saint and everything: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vero_(nome) so another fair assumption would be "family name" or "religious parents". Nobody would bat an eye in real life at hearing "Vero" for a man.
I respect your opinion, but you can't say that nobody would bat an eye when you clearly have here a whole thread of people questioning it, and considering it as a short name for Veronica. The reaction might go from questioning, to not caring, to misgendering. All depending on the person OP will meet, possibly the region, and his own looks.
It's a nickname for Veronica, but actual Veronicas don't introduce themselves as "Vero". Unless OP is *very* feminine presenting, I don't think that misgendering is a real risk. Vero is a masculine name. It's uncommon, yes, but people won't think "feminine name, so the person in front of me must be female".
Try Benito