Zamboni
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An ice resurfacing machine used to groom skating rinks, especially for professional use
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zɐ̃buni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zamboni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 36K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 45K
- ITItaly≈1 in 18K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
5,837 people
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An ice resurfacing machine used to groom skating rinks, especially for professional use.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Zamboni is read(measured from records)
Zamboni 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.
- Portuguese45%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zamboni in Portuguese.
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zamboni in Spanish.
- English12%
An ice resurfacing machine used to groom skating rinks, especially for professional use.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian8.1%
composto de Zan e Boni
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Zanni
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- French6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Zamboni in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Zamboni 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #969 | 5,837 | 1 in 36K | 5.8K | Zamboni | 95 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Zamboni | 55 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,017 | 1 in 45K | 1K | Zamboni | 55 |
| FR France | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 50 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 341 | 1 in 975K | 341 | Zamboni | 64 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 161 | 1 in 52K | 161 | Zamboni | 13 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Zamboni | 9 |
5,837 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zamboni is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, synonym of jäänhoitokone (ice resurfacer).
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)
- Giovanni Zambonib. 1650ITItalian composer
- Luigi Zambonib. 1772ITItalian patriot
- Giuseppe Zambonib. 1776ITItalian Roman Catholic priest-physicist
- Filippo Zambonib. 1826ITItalian poet and writer (1826-1910)
- Frank Zambonib. 1901USAmerican inventor and engineer (1901–1988)
- Anteo Zambonib. 1911ITItalian failed child assassin (1911–1926)
- Adriano Zambonib. 1933ITItalian road bicycle racer (1933–2005)
- Bob Zambonib. 1939US(1939-2002) animation, director, art
- Paolo Zambonib. 1957ITItalian physician
- Marco Zambonib. 1977ITItalian footballer
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.8K | #1,996 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 341 | #59,324 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 337 | #56,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 335 | #64,212 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 161 | #7,506 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 47 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Zamboni mean, and where does it come from?
- An ice resurfacing machine used to groom skating rinks, especially for professional use. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zamboni?
- A machine transcription gives /zɐ̃buni/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Zamboni have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Zamboni, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zamboni.
- How common is the name Zamboni?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,837 people named Zamboni, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Zamboni compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Zamboni is the 969th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zamboniThe 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, “Zamboni” — the 969th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.