Zeljković
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zeljković is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 31K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 3.5M
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zeljković itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 named Зељковић, est.
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Зељковић in RS Serbia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zeljković 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.
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Nives Celzijusb. 1981HRnot in their usual nameCroatian socialite, model, singer and writer
- Samir Zeljkovićb. 1997BABosnian association football player
- Adrian Zeljkovićb. 2002SISlovenian association football player (born 2002)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 136 | #6,026 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 124 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #191,085 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #212,056 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #166,578 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Zeljković have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 227 people named Зељковић in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zeljković most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zeljković is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zeljković?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 136 people named Zeljković in 2021, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zeljković?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zeljkovi%C4%87The 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, “Zeljković”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.