Branko

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Branko is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. serbischer, kroatischer oder slowenischer Herkunft, Kurzform von.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 190◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 220
  • RSSerbia1 in 252

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈38K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
165 ●

101K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 190 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

BrankoLatin · Croatian●168K records
БранкоCyrillic · Macedonian●3.8K records
บรานโกThai · Thai●1 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Branimir in BG Bulgaria, DE Germany, ES Spain and 7 more, Бранко in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia and Бранимир in TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

männl. Vom. serbischer, kroatischer oder slowenischer Herkunft, Kurzform von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Branko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#2022,23480K rec.1 in 19022KBranko107
RS Serbia#4512,7417.3K rec.—listedBranko80
SI Slovenia#199,558△458 rec.1 in 2209.6KBranko53
MK North Macedonia#893,697△30 rec.1 in 5753.7KБранко22
BG Bulgaria#5392,141474 rec.——Branimir62
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#231,460101 rec.——Branko33
US United States—8567.1K rec.1 in 389K2.8KBranko165
DE Germany—627561 rec.—1Branimir51
GB United Kingdom—611298 rec.——Branko37
KG Kyrgyzstan—5350 rec.——Branko1
CA Canada—512402 rec.——Branko53
XK Kosovo#210404215 rec.—525Branko3

Roughly 22K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 190). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian168K76%
  • Hungarian21K10%
  • English7.9K4%
  • Spanish4.8K2%
  • German4.5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian167,51076%
Hungarian20,91010%
English7,9024%
Spanish4,8452%
German4,5202%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Branko is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name1.3K records spelled Branko6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Braňko, Bránkó, Bránko

  • a separate given name712 records spelled Branko3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia, United Kingdom, Slovenia

    Also written Brańko, Braňko

  • Polish given name410 records spelled Branko2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Serbia

    Also written Brańko

  • Portuguese given name363 records spelled Branko20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, Russia, Serbia

    Languages: Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Branco, Бранко, Бранка, Бранку, Bränkö

  • Finnish given name293 records spelled Branko3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Serbia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Braňko

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Branko is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, dim of Bran.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Esperanto, gill (of a fish, etc.)

    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.

Over time●

010020030040020002005201020152020393 · 2019

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Branko in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999356
2000360
2001358
2002358
2003355
2004357
2005355
2006356
2007360
2008361
2009357
2010354
2011355
2012361
2013362
2014360
2015364
2016376
2017388
2018390
2019393
2020390

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Branko Grünbaum, b. 1929Branko Zebec, b. 1929Branko Lustig, b. 1932Branko Oblak, b. 1947Branko Milanović, b. 1953Branko Ivanković, b. 1954Branko Schmidt, b. 1957Branko Crvenkovski, b. 1962Branko Đurić, b. 1962Branko Ilić, b. 1983

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Branko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202122K#29
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202117K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200811K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200911K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201011K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201111K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201211K#14
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201311K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201411K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201511K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201611K#15
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201711K#16

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 397 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Branko?
We estimate roughly 38 thousand people bear Branko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Branko have the most bearers?
We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Branko in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled branko.
Where is Branko most common?
Branko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 190 people carrying it.
How common is Branko compared with other names?
In Croatia, Branko is the 20th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Branko a male or female name?
Branko is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Branko mean?
Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. serbischer, kroatischer oder slowenischer Herkunft, Kurzform von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Branko” — the 20th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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