Bocce is decided by a tape measure more often than any other sport, and the team names should have the same quiet confidence.
A bocce name does not need to be loud. It needs to hold up when somebody is on their knees measuring the gap between your ball and the pallino. Have yours made into a set of bocce jerseys by TeamGear Canada here.
Bocce in Canada runs on two very different tracks. Club play — often out of Italian social clubs with proper 27-metre courts, sideboards and a league schedule — is competitive, and the vocabulary is specific: the pallino is the small target ball, a raffa is a thrown hit to knock an opponent out, a volo is the lofted version, and a spock is the full-power strike. Names built from those read as insider jokes to anyone in the league and as nonsense to anyone outside it, which is exactly the point.
Backyard and park bocce is the other track, and it is mostly about rolling a ball on uneven grass with a drink in your other hand. Those names are in the second group.
Bocce Team Name Ideas
Club Court Names
Pallino Patrol
The Spocking Crew
Roll Models
Bocce and the Jets
The Inside Line
Volo Squad
Raffa Mafia
The Pallino Chasers
Measure Twice
Good Rollers
The Court Jesters
Dead Weight
Bocce Ballers
The Measuring Tape
In the Kitchen
Spock Around the Clock
The Lawn Order
Clay Court Club
Four Balls In
The Backspin
Nonna Approved
Roll With It
The Pallino Posse
Bank Shot Bandits
The Boccegrounds
Cold Steel
Long Court
The Spock Doctors
Sideboards
Full Roll
The Lawn Rangers
Punto and Volo
Close Enough
The Pointers
Rolling Thunder
Bocce Nights
Backyard and Park Names
The Clay Pigeons
Volo Volunteers
Tape Measure Trophy
The Backyard Italians
Short Roll
The Spock Squad
Pallino and Friends
The Court Reporters
Bank It
Roll Call
The Measuring Stick
Fine Margins
The Bocce Boys
Close Quarters
Lawn Enforcement
The Rolling Pins
Dead On
Open Court
The Pallino Project
Spock Value
Raffa Riot
The Last Roll
Court Side
Backhand Roll
The Grass Roots
Four and In
Bocce Business
The Final Measure
Roll of the Dice
Conclusion
Bocce names age well because the sport does. Pick something you would still be happy to have stitched on a shirt in ten years, because at this club that is roughly how long you will be wearing it.
Once you have picked one, we will put it on a jersey. TeamGear Canada makes custom bocce jerseys in our own Canadian factory — no minimum order, free design work, names and numbers included. Start your design here.
Still deciding? Have a look at 55+ Horseshoe Team Names That Ring True for more ideas.
