Zelenika
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mock privet (Phillyrea genus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Zelenika is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 263K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈580 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, 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
(measured from records)mock privet (Phillyrea genus)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zelenika 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #698 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Zelenika | 20 |
| HR Croatia | — | 547 | 1 in 7.7K | 547 | Zelenika | 40 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Zelenika | 14 |
| US United States | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 8M | — | Zelenika | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Zelenika | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 8 | 1 in 263K | 8 | — | 1 |
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); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Zelenika 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 Latvian, pilsēta Melnkalnē, Hercegnovi kopienā, 1800 iedzīvotāju (2003. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ratko Zelenikab. 1941SISlovenian economist
- Oliver Zelenikab. 1993HRCroatian 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)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 547 | #1,262 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 506 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 8 | #21,902 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Zelenika mean, and where does it come from?
- mock privet (Phillyrea genus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zelenika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 579 people named Zelenika in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelenika.
- How common is the name Zelenika?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 547 people named Zelenika in 2021, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Zelenika compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Zelenika is the 698th most common surname of 10,995 surnames 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/zelenikaThe 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, “Zelenika” — the 698th most common surname in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.