Živko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʐiʋko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Živko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country. In Bulgaria it is the 95th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 2.9K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.8Kas Jivko
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 Živko 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.
- North Macedonia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,334 named Живко
recorded for this name
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 Zhivko in BG Bulgaria and Живко 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)
Živko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MK North Macedonia | #225 | 3,334as Живко | 1 in 638 | 3.3K | Живко | 11 |
| RS Serbia | #174 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Živko | 27 |
| BG Bulgaria | #95 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Zhivko | 100 |
| HR Croatia | #347 | 1,468 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.5K | Živko | 32 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #493 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Živko | 11 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 247 | 1 in 8.5K | 251 | Živko | 6 |
3,334 people counted by State Statistical Office — living population names. 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); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Živko Topalovićb. 1886RSYugoslav politician (1886-1972)
- Živko Čingob. 1935MKMacedonian writer (1935-1987)
- Živko Radišićb. 1937BABosnian Serb politician
- Živko Nikolićb. 1941MEfilm director
- Živko Budimirb. 1962BABosnian Croat politician
- Zhivko Zhelevb. 1979BGBulgarian footballer
- Živko Anočićb. 1981HRCroatian actor
- Živko Gocićb. 1982RSSerbian water polo player and coach
- Živko Živkovićb. 1989RSSerbian football player
- Zhivko Petkovb. 1993RUBulgarian 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).
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.5K | #445 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 338 | #308 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 335 | #318 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 330 | #313 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 319 | #326 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 311 | #338 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 311 | #332 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 304 | #350 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 299 | #355 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 295 | #365 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 293 | #369 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Živko?
- In the etymology graph, Zhivko is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Živko?
- A machine transcription gives /ʐiʋko/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Živko a male or female name?
- Živko 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.
- In which country does Živko have the most bearers?
- In North Macedonia, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Живко, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Živko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,468 people named Živko in 2021, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Živko compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Živko is the 225th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Živko?
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%BEivkoThe 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, “Živko” — the 225th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.