Originally Posted By: Mikey_Sunset
This is a little off topic but it's a question I've had for awhile. Victoria was the name of John's wife but they also named their daughter Victoria. Shouldn't she have been given the name Philomena after Johns mother? I know it isn't a strict rule that children are named after their grandparents in Italy but is naming a daughter after her mother odd? BTW -I'm not saying that any member of the Gotti family is odd - I just wanted to add that.


Mickey is more used in the southern Italy, to give to the nephew the grandfather's name, but it's a rule that is disappearing because now have more imagination in choosing names even if sometimes exaggerates (I know a couple of surname Esposito that called her daughter Chantal, and grandparents call her Chantalla, 'cause they don't know how say the name).