Rizzoli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: bookstore, publisher (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/rissoli/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Rizzoli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 112K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 117K
- BEBelgium1 in 273K
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)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Rizzoli
- Spanish:/rissoli/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ritˈt͡sɔ.li/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/ɾizzuli/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bookstore, publisher. New York City
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
How Rizzoli is read
(measured from records)Rizzoli is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rizzoli in Spanish.
- English21%
bookstore, publisher. New York City
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Italian13%
de Rizzo, com sufixo plural -oli
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rizzoli in French.
- Portuguese8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rizzoli 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Rizzoli is found
(measured from records)Rizzoli 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 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Rizzoli | 18 |
| AR Argentina | 407 | 1 in 112K | 407 | Rizzoli | 28 |
| BR Brazil | 151 | 1 in 1.4M | 151 | Rizzoli | 42 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 467K | 15 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Rizzoli | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 72 | 1 in 117K | 72 | Rizzoli | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 43 | 1 in 273K | 43 | Rizzoli | 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Angelo Rizzolib. 1889ITItalian film producer and publisher (1889–1970)
- Andrea Rizzolib. 1914ITItalian editor and publisher (1914–1983)
- Nicola Rizzolib. 1971ITItalian football referee
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Rizzoli come from?
- bookstore, publisher. New York City Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Rizzoli?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /rissoli/; in Italian /ritˈt͡sɔ.li/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ɾizzuli/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Rizzoli mean?
- Recorded meaning: bookstore, publisher.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rizzoli?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Rizzoli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rizzoli. After it come Argentina, Brazil, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rizzoli?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 407 people named Rizzoli, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rizzoliThe 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, “Rizzoli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.