Mirko

given name · Croatian · Latin script

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

Mirko is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from the Slavic languages, feminine equivalent Mirka.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 251◐
  • RSSerbia1 in 460
  • SISlovenia1 in 585

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

≈26K ●

across 13 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
125 ●

85K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 251 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

MirkoLatin · Croatian●136K records
МиркоCyrillic · Russian●3K records
מירקוHebrew · Hebrew●332 records
ΜιρκοGreek · Greek●0 records
미르코Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Мирко in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Мірка in UA Ukraine, מירקו in IL Israel and Mirco in PL Poland.

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●

a male given name from the Slavic languages, feminine equivalent Mirka

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mirko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#4016,85761K rec.1 in 25117KMirko104
IT Italy#6369,4428.6K rec.—215Mirko113
RS Serbia#786,9714K rec.—listedMirko69
SI Slovenia#1443,596△128 rec.1 in 5853.6KMirko31
RU Russia—2,3771K rec.——Мирко92
UA Ukraine—1,3951.4K rec.——Мірка15
MK North Macedonia—1,019△7 rec.1 in 2.1K1KMirko10
US United States—9843.5K rec.1 in 338K984Mirko125
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#5298356 rec.——Mirko30
HU Hungary#83794452 rec.—112Mirko34
CZ Czechia#560794△104 rec.1 in 13K794Mirko49
FI Finland—571△31 rec.1 in 9.8K835Mirko10

Roughly 17K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 251). 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●

  • Croatian136K35%
  • German81K21%
  • Spanish70K18%
  • Italian32K8%
  • English17K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian135,94335%
German80,78921%
Spanish70,43218%
Italian31,8998%
English17,2134%

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◐

Mirko is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name115K records spelled Mirko12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, Peru, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

    Also written Mìrko, Mirķo, Mírko, Mìrkò, Mirkó

  • German given name110K records spelled Mirko10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Italy, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Mir-Ko, Mirkó, Mirkö, Mirkoe

  • Finnish given name4.3K records spelled Mirko4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Italy, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mirkó, Mîrko

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Mirko2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Mirkó

43 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●

Mirko 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, männl. Vom., Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Pace

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Russian, dim of Mir.

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

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●

010020030019401960198020002020244 · 1991

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Mirko in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1921–2021
Yearrecords
19211
19221
19231
19261
19281
19291
19321
19341
19402
19421
19432
19441
19451
19461
19471
19481
19503
19511
19542
19551
19562
19574
19587
19593
19604
19617
19626
19636
196410
19656
19667
196712
19688
196911
197012
19716
19728
19737
197410
19755
197613
19776
19786
19799
19809
198114
19825
19837
198412
19859
198612
198718
198827
198916
199026
1991244
1992239
1993130
1994137
199567
199674
199766
199853
199957
200062
200154
200254
200335
200428
200523
200620
200715
200815
200917
201019
201113
201215
201313
201417
201522
201610
201716
20189
20197
202012
20214

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 86 years between 1921–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, b. 1820Prince Mirko of Montenegro, b. 1879Mirko Marjanović, b. 1937Mirko Novosel, b. 1938Mirko Cvetković, b. 1950Mirko Slomka, b. 1967Mirko Filipović, b. 1974Mirko Hrgović, b. 1979Mirko Vučinić, b. 1983Mirko Valdifiori, b. 1986

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 65 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Mirko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202117K#49
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202112K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20253.6K#77
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3.5K#155
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020984#12,583
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—835#1,619
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—794#546
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—571—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—556#4,239
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—481#2,170
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—402#3,228
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—397#611

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 600 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mirko?
We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Mirko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Mirko have the most bearers?
We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Mirko in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mirko.
Where is Mirko most common?
Mirko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 251 people carrying it.
How common is Mirko compared with other names?
In Croatia, Mirko is the 40th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Mirko a male or female name?
Mirko 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 Mirko mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from the Slavic languages, feminine equivalent Mirka
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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, “Mirko” — the 40th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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