Zhivko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zhivko 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 2.1Kas Živko(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.8Kas Jivko
- HRCroatia1 in 2.9Kas Živko
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 Zhivko 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 280K (inferred from the name graph)
3,334 named Живко
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Živko in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, SI Slovenia and 1 more 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 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhivko 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 | 1,468as Živko | 1 in 2.9K | 1.5K | Živko | 32 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #493 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Živko | 11 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 247as Živko | 1 in 8.5K | 251 | Živko | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 85 | 1 in 588K | 89 | Zhivko | 23 |
| AL Albania | — | 11 | 1 in 280K | 11 | — | — |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Zhivko 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 Russian, dim of Zhiva.
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)
- Zhivko Dobrevb. 1873BGBulgarian diplomat
- Schiwko Iwanowb. 1936BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian geologist
- Zhivko Vangelovb. 1960BGOlympic wrestler
- Zhivko Todorovb. 1981BGBulgarian politician
- Zhivko Stanevb. 1992BGBulgarian voice actor and singer
- Żywomir DinewPLnot in their usual namePh.D. Uniwersytet Jagielloński 2010
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 89 | #8,109 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 85 | #17,969 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 28 | #3,059 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 28 | #1,498 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 27 | #1,548 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 27 | #1,448 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 25 | #1,567 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 24 | #1,526 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 22 | #1,566 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 21 | #1,554 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 21 | #1,454 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 20 | #1,548 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Zhivko a male or female name?
- Zhivko 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.
- What are other forms of the name Zhivko?
- In the etymology graph, Živko is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Zhivko 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.
- Where is Zhivko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhivko is densest in Albania — about 1 in 280 thousand people — even though North Macedonia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhivko?
- In Spain, the national register counted 85 people named Zhivko, about 1 in 588 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhivko compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Zhivko is the 225th most common given name of 2,588 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/zhivkoThe 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, “Zhivko” — the 225th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.