Vlado

given name · Latin script

Meaning: männl. Vom., Kurzform von

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 448(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 3.7K
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.8K

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 Vlado 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)

9,439 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 448 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VladoLatin(measured from records)
ВладоCyrillic(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)

männl. Vom., Kurzform von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vlado 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 Vlado is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#1229,4391 in 4489.4KVlado92
MK North Macedonia#3332,714as Владо1 in 7832.7KVlado31
RS Serbia#345≈1,900 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Vlado39
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#166≈1,600 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Vlado26
SI Slovenia#1851,1491 in 1.8K1.1KVlado28
ME Montenegro#147≈210 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Vlado16

9,439 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); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vlado is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Vláďo, Vlaďo, Vládo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vládo

  • Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Serbia, Angola, United States

    Also written Vládo

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Владо

41 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Vlado Chernozemski, b. 1897Vlado Perlemuter, b. 1904Vlado Gotovac, b. 1930Vlado Milunić, b. 1941Vlado Kalember, b. 1953Vlado Janevski, b. 1960Vlado Bučkovski, b. 1962Vlado Jovanovski, b. 1967Vlado Šola, b. 1968Vlado Petković, b. 1983

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 33 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Vlado
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20219.4K#110
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20217.6K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.3K#144
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.3K#142
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.3K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111.3K#148
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.3K#147
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.3K#149
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.3K#152
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.3K#153
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.3K#152
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.3K#152

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

What does the name Vlado mean, and where does it come from?
männl. Vom., Kurzform von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
Is Vlado a male or female name?
Vlado 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 Vlado?
In the etymology graph, Waldemar, Valdemar and Vlad are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Vladimir and Vladislav.
In which country does Vlado have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Vlado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vlado.
Where is Vlado most common?
Vlado is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 448 people carrying it.
How common is the name Vlado?
In Croatia, the national register counted 9,439 people named Vlado in 2021, about 1 in 448 residents.
How common is Vlado compared with other names?
In Croatia, Vlado is the 122nd most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Vlado” — the 122nd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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