Tombola
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: bingo (when played at home)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tombola/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tombola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 443K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 443K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
raffle (small-scale lottery, usually for fundraising)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tombola is read(measured from records)
Tombola is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian26%
bingo (when played at home)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French20%
a lottery, raffle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tombola in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tombola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 443K | listed | Tombola | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 135M | — | Tombola | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tombola is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, raffle (small-scale lottery, usually for fundraising)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, raffle, lottery
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, raffle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Irene Tombolab. 1987ITItalian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #176,358 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tombola come from?
- raffle (small-scale lottery, usually for fundraising) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tombola?
- A machine transcription gives /tombola/ (IPA) for Italian.
- What does the name Tombola mean?
- In Italian, bingo (when played at home)
- In which country does Tombola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 141 people named Tombola in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tombola.
- How common is the name Tombola?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 10 people named Tombola in 2024, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tombola?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tombolaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tombola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.