Mirko
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: a male given name from the Slavic languages, feminine equivalent Mirka
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mǐːrko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mirko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 32nd most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 251(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 501
- ITItaly≈1 in 806
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
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:
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)
a male given name from the Slavic languages, feminine equivalent Mirka
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mirko is read(measured from records)
Mirko is one spelling over 5 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.
- Croatian29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mirko in Croatian.
- German24%
männl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Italian18%
a male given name from the Slavic languages, feminine equivalent Mirka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mirko in Spanish.
- English5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mirko in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Mirko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 806 | 215 | Mirko | 104 |
| HR Croatia | #32 | 16,857 | 1 in 251 | 17K | Mirko | 107 |
| RS Serbia | #77 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 501 | listed | Mirko | 68 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 283 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | #141 | 3,596 | 1 in 585 | 3.6K | Mirko | 34 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #53 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Mirko | 30 |
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; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present). 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)
Mirko is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pace
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Russian, dim of Mir.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Mirko Petrović-Njegošb. 1820MEMontenegrin military commander, diplomat and poet (1820-1867)
- Prince Mirko of Montenegrob. 1879MEPrince of Montenegro (1879-1918)
- Mirko Marjanovićb. 1937RSPrime Minister of Serbia from 1994 to 2000
- Mirko Novoselb. 1938HRbasketball player and coach (1938–2023)
- Mirko Cvetkovićb. 1950RSPrime Minister of Serbia (2008–2012)
- Mirko Slomkab. 1967DEGerman association football player and manager
- Mirko Filipovićb. 1974HRCroatian mixed martial artist, kickboxer and law enforcement officer
- Mirko Hrgovićb. 1979BABosnian association football player
- Mirko Vučinićb. 1983MEMontenegrin footballer
- Mirko Valdifiorib. 1986ITItalian association football player (born 1986)
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 | 17K | #49 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 3.6K | #77 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 3.5K | #155 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 283 | #410 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 215 | #112 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 155 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 155 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 1994 | 7 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Mirko mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from the Slavic languages, feminine equivalent Mirka Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mirko a male or female name?
- Mirko 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 Mirko?
- A machine transcription gives /mǐːrko/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What are other forms of the name Mirko?
- In the etymology graph, Mirco, Mirosław and Mirek are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Miroslav.
- In which country does Mirko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Mirko in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mirko.
- Where is Mirko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mirko is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 251 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mirko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 16,857 people named Mirko in 2021, about 1 in 251 residents.
- How common is Mirko compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Mirko is the 32nd 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/mirkoThe 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, “Mirko” — the 32nd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.