Zarko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zarko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. In Montenegro it is the 84th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 1.4K
- SISlovenia1 in 3.4K
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 Zarko 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
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Žarko in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, SI Slovenia and 1 more.
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 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zarko 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 | #117 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Žarko | 53 |
| HR Croatia | #269 | 3,073 | 1 in 1.4K | 3.1K | Žarko | 66 |
| MK North Macedonia | #527 | 1,708as Жарко | 1 in 1.2K | 1.7K | Zarko | 19 |
| SI Slovenia | #724 | 621 | 1 in 3.4K | 621 | Žarko | 11 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Zarko | 38 |
| ME Montenegro | #84 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Žarko | 12 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Žarko Dolinarb. 1920HRCroatian table tennis player (1920–2003)
- Žarko Jovanovićb. 1925RSSerbian Romani musician, songwriter, activist
- Žarko Petanb. 1929SISlovenian writer and director (1929–2014)
- Žarko Varajićb. 1951RSbasketball player (1951–2019)
- Žarko Đurovićb. 1961RSSerbian footballer
- Žarko Petrovićb. 1964RSvolleyball player (1964-2007)
- Žarko Paspaljb. 1966RSSerbian basketball player (born 1966)
- Žarko Čabarkapab. 1981RSSerbian basketball player (born 1981)
- Žarko Lazetićb. 1982RSSerbian footballer
- Žarko Tomaševićb. 1990MEMontenegrin 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Zarko a male or female name?
- Zarko 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 Zarko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Zarko in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled žarko.
- How common is the name Zarko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 3,073 people named Zarko in 2021, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Zarko compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Zarko is the 117th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zarkoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zarko” — the 117th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.