Veljko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʋe˨˦ʎko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Veljko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 748(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 2.2K
- MEMontenegro≈1 in 4K
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 Veljko 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 748 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veljko 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 | #85 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 748 | — | Veljko | 67 |
| HR Croatia | #328 | 1,884 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.9K | Veljko | 62 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #209 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Veljko | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 278 | 1 in 7.6K | 285 | Veljko | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 93 | Veljko | 22 |
| ME Montenegro | #88 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Veljko | 19 |
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). 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)
Veljko 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)
- Veljko Petrovićb. 1780RSSerbian hajduk (1780-1813)
- Veljko Čubrilovićb. 1886BAperson involved in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Veljko Milatovićb. 1921MEPresident of Montenegro
- Veljko Kadijevićb. 1925RUYugoslav general (1925-2014)
- Veljko Bulajićb. 1928HRCroatian film director (1928–2024)
- Veljko Mršićb. 1971HRCroatian basketball player and coach
- Veljko Paunovićb. 1977RSSerbian footballer and managerbdbeb
- Veljko Petkovićb. 1977RSvolleyball player
- Veljko Stojnićb. 1999RSSerbian cyclist
- Veljko Milosavljevićb. 2007RSSerbian footballer
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 27 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.9K | #381 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.5K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 285 | #831 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 278 | #421 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 274 | #422 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 258 | #431 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 253 | #427 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 247 | #433 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 246 | #430 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 228 | #437 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 224 | #427 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 224 | #417 |
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
- In which country does Veljko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Veljko in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veljko.
- How do you pronounce Veljko?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋe˨˦ʎko/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Veljko a male or female name?
- Veljko 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 Veljko?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Veselko.
- How common is the name Veljko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,884 people named Veljko in 2021, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Veljko compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Veljko is the 85th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Veljko?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veljkoThe 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, “Veljko” — the 85th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.