Ranko
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from the Slavic languages
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ranko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ranko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. In Montenegro it is the 59th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 2.2K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 3.3K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ranko 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 | #181 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Ranko | 45 |
| HR Croatia | #332 | 1,882 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.9K | Ranko | 60 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #144 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Ranko | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Ranko | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Ranko | 49 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 336 | 1 in 6.3K | 336 | Ranko | 11 |
| ME Montenegro | #59 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | #7 | Ranko | 22 |
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; the me-monstat-census-ranked register. 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)
Ranko is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "early."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Polish, synonym of rano (“in the morning”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, synonym of ranka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ranko Sawab. 1903JPJapanese actress
- Ranko Marinkovićb. 1913HRCroatian writer (1913–2001)
- Ranko Hanaib. 1918JPactress (1918-1961)
- Ranko Žeravicab. 1929RSSerbian basketball coach (1929–2015)
- Ranko Mizukib. 1929JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Ranko Krivokapićb. 1961MEMontenegrin politician
- Ranko Ostojićb. 1962HRCroatian politician
- Ranko Zidarićb. 1965HRCroatian theater, television and film actor
- Ranko Popovićb. 1967RSSerbian association football player and manager
- Ranko Matasovićb. 1968HRCroatian linguist
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.9K | #383 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.5K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 347 | #356 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 342 | #355 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 342 | #347 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 342 | #337 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 340 | #364 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 339 | #316 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 338 | #360 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 338 | #316 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 337 | #374 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 337 | #335 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Ranko mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from the Slavic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ranko?
- A machine transcription gives /ranko/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Ranko a male or female name?
- Ranko 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 Ranko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Ranko in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ranko.
- How common is the name Ranko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,882 people named Ranko in 2021, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ranko compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Ranko is the 181st most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ranko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rankoThe 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, “Ranko” — the 181st most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.