I've always been a strong believer that a child's name needs to be chosen by BOTH parents ... even if you are the one carrying the child for 9mths and giving birth BUT like my DP pointed out to me that he and some other men kind of wish they too could experience what we get to have in being pregnant (maybe not the birth part, LOL) ... so if you want an unusual name & your future hubby an Italian name i truely like MrsMac suggested you could come up with a gorgeous unusual sounding Italian name

P.S - I too agree that you both don't tell anyone of the chosen name !! We chose an unusual name for our DD & didn't tell a sole cause if we did we wouldn't have been able to handle the rolled eyes or sniggers too and didn't want anything putting us off the name either. NO one is game enough to roll their eyes when the bub is here, LOL