Željka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʐeː˦˨ʎka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Željka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Žȇljko + -a.
- HRCroatia1 in 318(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 3.4K
- DEGermany≈1 in 116K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 318 (inferred from the name graph)
13,291 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zeljka in DE Germany, AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Žȇljko + -a.
Sources 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Željka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #87 | 13,291 | 1 in 318 | 13K | Željka | 81 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #150 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Željka | 21 |
| RS Serbia | #229 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Željka | 31 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Zeljka | 65 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 4 | Zeljka | 36 |
| SI Slovenia | #593 | 354 | 1 in 5.9K | 358 | Željka | 8 |
| ME Montenegro | #156 | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Željka | 9 |
13,291 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Željka Čorakb. 1943HRCroatian art historian
- Željka Antunovićb. 1955HRCroatian politician
- Željka Preksavecb. 1960DEGerman actress
- Željka Lovrenčićb. 1960HRCroatian writer
- Željka Ogrestab. 1963HRCroatian journalist and television presenter
- Željka Markićb. 1964HRCroatian journalist, translator, entrepreneur and Catholic activist
- Željka Cvijanovićb. 1967BABosnian Serb politician
- Željka Radanovićb. 1989MEMontenegrin football player
- Željka Nikolićb. 1991RSSerbian handball player
- Željka Drmićb. 1991HRbadminton player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 13K | #78 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 358 | #734 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 354 | #369 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 352 | #366 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 341 | #366 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 341 | #360 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 338 | #361 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 333 | #359 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 326 | #360 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 325 | #353 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 325 | #348 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Željka mean, and where does it come from?
- From Žȇljko + -a. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Željka?
- A machine transcription gives /ʐeː˦˨ʎka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Željka a male or female name?
- Željka is a female 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.
- In which country does Željka have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Željka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled željka.
- Where is Željka most common?
- Željka is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 318 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Željka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 13,291 people named Željka in 2021, about 1 in 318 residents.
- How common is Željka compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Željka is the 87th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BEeljkaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Željka” — the 87th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.