Marinko
given name · Latin script
Meaning: derivative of the personal name Marin, formed with the diminutive suffix -ko
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mariŋko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marinko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 770(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 3.4K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 4.3K
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 Marinko 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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 770 (inferred from the name graph)
5,491 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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)
derivative of the personal name Marin, formed with the diminutive suffix -ko.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marinko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #206 | 5,491 | 1 in 770 | 5.5K | Marinko | 89 |
| RS Serbia | #312 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Marinko | 40 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #141 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Marinko | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Marinko | 75 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 10 | Marinko | 26 |
| SI Slovenia | #680 | 276 | 1 in 7.6K | 445 | Marinko | 20 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 164as Маринко | 1 in 13K | 164 | — | 2 |
5,491 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); State Statistical Office — living population 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)
Marinko 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 Finnish, genitive singular of Mari (with enclitic-ko)
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)
- Marinko Rokvićb. 1954BASerbian singer
- Marinko Čavarab. 1967BABosnian Croat politician
- Marinko Galičb. 1970SISlovenian footballer
- Marinko Prgab. 1971HRCroatian actor
- Marinko Šarkezib. 1972SISlovenian footballer and coach
- Marinko Madžgaljb. 1978RSSerbian actor and singer (1978–2016)
- Marinko Miletićb. 1980DEGerman footballer
- Marinko Mačkićb. 1983BABosnian footballer (born 1983)
- Marinko Matosevicb. 1985AUAustralian tennis player
- Marinko StantićRSCroatian theologian
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 445 | #737 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 does the name Marinko mean, and where does it come from?
- derivative of the personal name Marin, formed with the diminutive suffix -ko. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marinko?
- A machine transcription gives /mariŋko/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Marinko a male or female name?
- Marinko 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 Marinko?
- In the etymology graph, Rini, Marinus and Rien are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marinko have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Marinko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marinko.
- Where is Marinko most common?
- Marinko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 770 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marinko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 5,491 people named Marinko in 2021, about 1 in 770 residents.
- How common is Marinko compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Marinko is the 206th 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/marinkoThe 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, “Marinko” — the 206th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.