Slavko

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Славко in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

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 5 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◐

Slavko is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Czech given name1.1K records spelled Slavko3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Serbia

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Slávko

42 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●

Slavko 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 Slav.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

  as a word·kaikki.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●

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●

• Slavko Kvaternikb. 1878HRCroatian soldier and politician (1878–1947)
• Slavko Vorkapićb. 1894USAmerican filmmaker and film editor (1894-1976)
• Slavko Lušticab. 1923HRYugoslavian footballer (1923-1992)
• Slavko Goldsteinb. 1928HRCroatian writer and publisher (1928–2017)
• Slavko Avsenikb. 1929SISlovenian musician (1929–2015)
• Slavko Obadovb. 1948RSSerbian judoka (1948–2025)
• Slavko Stimacb. 1960RSSerbian actor of croat origin
• Slavko Golužab. 1971HRCroatian handball player
• Slavko Vinčičb. 1979SISlovenian association football referee
• Slavko Sobinb. 1984HRCroatian actor

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 · 211 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Slavko?

We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Slavko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Slavko have the most bearers?

We estimate about 13 thousand people bear Slavko in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled slavko.

Where is Slavko most common?

Slavko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 331 people carrying it.

How common is Slavko compared with other names?

In Croatia, Slavko is the 76th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Slavko a male or female name?

Slavko 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.