Given names are not really a problem as any Italian name would do. But family names differ. The constitutional set-up in Venice made it much less likely that the republic would become dominated by one family, which was the fate of Genoa and Florence, as shown by the number of names available.

Normally one became the head of a republic much the same one became the Pope, so the same formula would work.

FLORENCE                      GENOA                         VENICE                        

Bardi                         Boccanera                     Barbarigo                     

Bueri                         Caboto                        Celsi                         

Cavalcanti                    Colombo                       Contarini                     

Cerchi                        Doria                         Dandolo                       

de Medici                     Doria                         Corner                        

degli Albizzi                 Doria                         Dolfin                        

Donati                        Doria                         Falier                        

Pazzi                         Doria                         Foscari                       

Peruzzi                                                     Gradenigo                     

Tornabuoni                                                  Mocenigo                      

                                                            Morosini                      

                                                            Pisani                        

                                                            Polo                          

                                                            Soranzo                       

                                                            Steno                         

                                                            Tiepolo                       

                                                            Venier                        

                                                            Zeno                          

                                                            Zorzi
                         

Andrea              Carlo               Cosimo              Filippo             Francesco           

Giovanni            Giuliano            Giuseppi            Lorenzo             Piero               

                    Pietro                                  Simone