Živka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/ʐiʋka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Živka is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 12K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 3.4Kas Живка
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 Živka 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 named Живка, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zhivka in BG Bulgaria and Живка in MK North Macedonia.
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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Živka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #311 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Zhivka | 63 |
| RS Serbia | #346 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | listed | Živka | 16 |
| MK North Macedonia | #666 | 1,359as Живка | 1 in 1.6K | 1.4K | Живка | 4 |
| HR Croatia | #824 | 346 | 1 in 12K | 346 | Živka | 12 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 81 | 1 in 26K | 81 | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Živka | 2 |
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: State Statistical Office — living population names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names. 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)- Živka Komacb. 1949SISlovene poet
- Zivka Parkb. 1985FRFrench politician
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 346 | #892 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 248 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 106 | #570 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 104 | #594 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 104 | #591 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 104 | #581 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 103 | #603 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 102 | #609 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 100 | #624 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 99 | #633 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 97 | #653 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 96 | #680 |
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 are other forms of the name Živka?
- In the etymology graph, Zhivka is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Živka?
- A machine transcription gives /ʐiʋka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Živka a male or female name?
- Živka 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 Živka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Живка in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Živka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 346 people named Živka in 2021, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Živka compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Živka is the 311th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Živka?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BEivkaThe 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, “Živka” — the 311th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.