Vinko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vinko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 472(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 106K
- SISlovenia1 in 867
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 Vinko 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
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 472 (inferred from the name graph)
8,965 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Винко 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 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vinko 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 | #91 | 8,965 | 1 in 472 | 9K | Vinko | 97 |
| SI Slovenia | #179 | 2,426 | 1 in 867 | 2.4K | Vinko | 25 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #245 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Vinko | 14 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 106K | listed | Vinko | 54 |
| RS Serbia | #544 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Vinko | 24 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 142as Винко | 1 in 15K | 142 | Винко | 1 |
8,965 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; the de-munich-vornamen register; 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)
Vinko is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Vinko Lidukhovskii, Kremenets landowner. 1552.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Esperanto, periwinkle
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)
- Vinko Pribojevićb. 1401HRCroatian historian
- Vinko Žganecb. 1890HRCroatian enthnomusicologist (1890-1976)
- Vinko Globokarb. 1934FRSlovenian musician
- Vice Vukovb. 1936HRnot in their usual nameCroatian singer and politician (1936-2008)
- Vinko Rosićb. 1941HRCroatian water polo player
- Vinko Puljićb. 1945BACatholic cardinal
- Vinko Jelovacb. 1948HRYugoslav basketball player (born 1948)
- Vinko Möderndorferb. 1958SIwriter, poet, playwright and director
- Vinko Brešanb. 1964HRCroatian film director (born 1964)
- Vinko Marinovićb. 1971BABosnian footballer (born 1971)
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 34 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 9K | #118 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 6.7K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 3.4K | #74 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 3.3K | #75 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 3.3K | #77 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 3.2K | #76 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 3.2K | #79 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 3.1K | #79 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 3.1K | #80 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 3K | #84 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 3K | #86 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 2.9K | #89 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Is Vinko a male or female name?
- Vinko 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 Vinko?
- In the etymology graph, Vincent, Vicente and Enzo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vinko have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Vinko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vinko.
- Where is Vinko most common?
- Vinko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 472 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vinko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 8,965 people named Vinko in 2021, about 1 in 472 residents.
- How common is Vinko compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Vinko is the 91st 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/vinkoThe 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, “Vinko” — the 91st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.