Zvonko

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.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Zvonko is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Звонко

36 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.

Zvonko 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 Russian, "sound."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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.

• Zvonko Jazbecb. 1911USYugoslavian footballer (1911-1970)
• Zvonko Vranesicb. 1938CACanadian chess player and professor of computer engineering
• Zvonko Begob. 1940HRCroatian association footballer (1940-2018)
• Zvonko Petričevićb. 1940XKbasketball player and architect (1940-2009)
• Zvonko Bušićb. 1946USCroatian political activist and hijacker (1946–2013)
• Zvonko Makovićb. 1947HRCroatian art historian, poet, and essayist
• Zvonko Stanojoskib. 1964MKMacedonian chess player
• Zvonko Pantovićb. 1968RSSerbian singer
• Zvonko Taneskib. 1980MKMacedonian poet, literary critic, university professor in Slovakia and translator
• Zvonko Pamićb. 1991HRCroatian 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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What are other forms of the name Zvonko?

In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Zvonimir.

How do you pronounce Zvonko?

In Croatian /zʋǒːnko/ (Wiktionary).

Is Zvonko a male or female name?

Zvonko is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Slovenia (SURS, 2025), Kosovo (ASK Kosovo) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

In which country does Zvonko have the most bearers?

In Croatia, the national register counted about 9.2 thousand people named Zvonko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zvonko.

Where is Zvonko most common?

Zvonko is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 458 people carrying it.

How common is the name Zvonko?

In Croatia, the national register counted 9,224 people named Zvonko in 2021, about 1 in 458 residents.

How common is Zvonko compared with other names?

In Croatia, Zvonko is the 120th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.