Hi! I was lurking and thought this was a very interesting questions. Here are my thoughts:

We carefully consider names, because we enjoy that part of having a baby, and we want names that will identify our cultural heritage. As Italian-Americans, there is less and less of our ancestory reflected in society. To most people, it's a cliche of pizza, pasta and Tony Soprano. The one way we thought we could instill some pride for our heritage in our kids was to give them more traditional Italian names. Even so, when my oldest was born and dubbed Angelo, an older relative chuckled and said, "Well we know this is one baby who will never be president with vowels on the end of his names." I thought that was sort of sad, but that's how the older generations see things. All in all, we love their names and have no regrets.