Zlatko

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Златко 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●

Attested across 11 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◐

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

• Russian given name137 records spelled Zlatko4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Златко

40 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●

Zlatko 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 transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Златко (Zlatko)

  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●

• Zlatko Čajkovskib. 1923HRCroatian footballer
• Zlatko Burićb. 1953HRCroat-Danish actor
• Zlatko Lagumdžijab. 1955BAChairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 to 2002
• Zlatko Dalićb. 1966HRCroatian association football player and coach
• Zlatko Zahovičb. 1971SISlovenian footballer
• Zlatan Ibrahimovićb. 1981SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player (born 1981)
• Zlatan Muslimovićb. 1981BAnot in their usual nameBosnian association football player
• Zlatan Ljubijankičb. 1983SInot in their usual nameSlovenian association football player
• Zlatko Dedićb. 1984SISlovenian footballer
• Zlatko Junuzovićb. 1987BAAustrian 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 · 162 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zlatko?

We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Zlatko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Zlatko have the most bearers?

We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Zlatko in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zlatko.

Where is Zlatko most common?

Zlatko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 249 people carrying it.

How common is Zlatko compared with other names?

In Croatia, Zlatko is the 55th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Zlatko a male or female name?

Zlatko 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 Zlatko mean?

Recorded meaning: Se Zlatan.