Velko

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Veljko in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, US United States and 18 more 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.

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◐

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

• Ukrainian surname585 records spelled Velko18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

  Also written Велько, Veljko, Велко, Вељко, Vel̂ko

27 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.

Over time●

SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Velko Markovb. 1870MKMacedoninan Revolutionary (VMRO)
• Velko Khristevb. 1974BGBulgarian association football player (1974-)

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 · 56 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Velko?

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

In which country does Velko have the most bearers?

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

How common is Velko compared with other names?

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

Is Velko a male or female name?

Velko 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.