Darko
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from the Slavic languages
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪a˨˦rko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Darko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 222(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 231
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 718
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 Darko 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
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дарко 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(measured from records)
Darko är en slavisk smekform av → Darius.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Darko is read(measured from records)
Darko is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian70%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Darko in Croatian.
- English9.5%
A male given name from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.8%
männl. Vom., tschechische, bulgari sche, serbische, kroatische, makedonische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Darko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #43 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | listed | Darko | 89 |
| HR Croatia | #44 | 19,036 | 1 in 222 | 19K | Darko | 144 |
| MK North Macedonia | #12 | 6,825as Дарко | 1 in 311 | 6.8K | Дарко | 59 |
| SI Slovenia | #66 | 6,053 | 1 in 347 | 6.1K | Darko | 53 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #47 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 718 | — | Darko | 48 |
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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Darko 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 Swedish, Darko är en slavisk smekform av → Darius.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Darko Suvinb. 1930CACroatian Canadian literary critic
- Darko Rundekb. 1956HRCroatian rock musician
- Darko Pančevb. 1965MKMacedonian footballer (born 1965)
- Darko Milaničb. 1967SISlovenian footballer and manager
- Darko Kovačevićb. 1973RSSerbian footballer
- Darko Perićb. 1977RSSerbian actor
- Darko Tasevskib. 1984MKMacedonian footballer
- Darko Miličićb. 1985RSSerbian basketball player (born 1985)
- Darko Lazovićb. 1990RSSerbian footballer (born 1990)
- Garikoitz Brašanacb. 1992RSnot in their usual nameSerbian 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 68 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 19K | #39 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 17K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 6.1K | #45 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 6K | #77 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2004 | 5 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Darko a male or female name?
- Darko 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.
- How do you pronounce Darko?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪a˨˦rko/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What does the name Darko mean?
- In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.
- What are other forms of the name Darko?
- In the etymology graph, Božo, Boško and Bożydar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Darko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Darko in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darko.
- Where is Darko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Darko is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 222 people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Darko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 19,036 people named Darko in 2021, about 1 in 222 residents.
- How common is Darko compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Darko is the 43rd most common given name of 10,960 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/darkoThe 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, “Darko” — the 43rd most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.