Svetko

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025

/sʋětko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Svetko is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 22K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 117K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 162K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

196 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
12 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
SvetkoLatin(measured from records)
СветкоCyrillic(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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Svetko 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.

Where Svetko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia1961 in 22K196Svetko12
RS Serbia≈43 est.≈1 in 162K—Svetko8
US United States≈27 est.≈1 in 12M—Svetko10
SI Slovenia181 in 117K27Svetko2
PY Paraguay≈18 est.≈1 in 409K—Svetko1
BG Bulgaria≈9 est.≈1 in 735K—Svetko7

196 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). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Svetko is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Светко

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Svetko 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 English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

    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)
18601880190019201940Svetko Martelanc, b. 1862Svetko Martelanc, b. 1886Svetko Kobal, b. 1921Svetko Grgič, b. 1931

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)
InformalBok Svetko,Hi Svetko, (English)

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)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Svetko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021196#1,180
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021137—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200825#1,211
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200924#1,256
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201523#1,388
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201423#1,376
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201323#1,363
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201023#1,319
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201922#1,514
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201822#1,479
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201722#1,465
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201622#1,443

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

How do you pronounce Svetko?
A machine transcription gives /sʋětko/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Svetko a male or female name?
Svetko 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 Svetko have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 196 people named Svetko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled svetko.
Where is Svetko most common?
Svetko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Svetko?
In Croatia, the national register counted 196 people named Svetko in 2021, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Svetko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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