Mitko

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Митко in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• German given name3.1K records spelled Mitko6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: German, English, Dutch

  Also written Miťko

• Spanish given name2.0K records spelled Mitko5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

  Languages: Spanish, French, Catalan

  Also written MîTkô

• Russian surname676 records spelled Mitko13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Митько, Мітько, Мітко, Митко, Mit'Ko

• Czech given name301 records spelled Mitko4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Miťko

32 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●

Mitko 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 Russian, dim of Dmitrii.

  as a word·A 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●

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●

• Mitko Khadzhievb. 1961BGOlympic skier
• Mitko Sabevb. 1961BGBulgarian businessman
• Mitko Chavkovb. 1963MKpolitician
• Mitko Grablevb. 1964BGBulgarian weightlifter
• Mitko Stoilovb. 1983MKMacedonian handball player
• Mitko Tsenovb. 1993BGBulgarian athletics competitor

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 138 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mitko?

We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Mitko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Mitko have the most bearers?

Mitko is most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is most often spelled mitko.

Where is Mitko most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mitko is densest in North Macedonia — about 1 in 696 people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.

How common is Mitko compared with other names?

In Bulgaria, Mitko is the 97th most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.

Is Mitko a male or female name?

Mitko 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.