Veljko

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Velko in BG Bulgaria, NL Netherlands, ES Spain and Велко 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 3 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◐

Veljko is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name1.4K records spelled Veljko6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Serbia, France, United States, Argentina

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Véljkő

• Ukrainian surname152 records spelled Veljko18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

  Also written Велько, Велко, Velko, Вељко, Vel̂ko

34 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●

Veljko 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 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●

• Veljko Petrovićb. 1780RSSerbian hajduk (1780-1813)
• Veljko Čubrilovićb. 1886BAperson involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
• Veljko Milatovićb. 1921MEPresident of Montenegro
• Veljko Kadijevićb. 1925RUYugoslav general (1925-2014)
• Veljko Bulajićb. 1928HRCroatian film director (1928–2024)
• Veljko Mršićb. 1971HRCroatian basketball player and coach
• Veljko Paunovićb. 1977RSSerbian footballer and managerbdbeb
• Veljko Petkovićb. 1977RSvolleyball player
• Veljko Stojnićb. 1999RSSerbian cyclist
• Veljko Milosavljevićb. 2007RSSerbian footballer

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 · 203 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Veljko?

We estimate roughly 2.7 thousand people bear Veljko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Veljko have the most bearers?

Veljko is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled veljko.

How common is Veljko compared with other names?

In Serbia, Veljko is the 90th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Veljko a male or female name?

Veljko 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.