Given name & surname
Željko
“to wish, want”
Željko is a masculine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Željko goes back to a word meaning “to wish, want.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Serbo-Croatian željeti (“to wish, want”) + -ko.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Željko’s family of names
In Croatian usage, Željko has a conventional equivalent in the French form Désiré.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Željko
- Željko JoksimovićSerbian singer-songwriterborn 1972
- Željko KomšićBosnian Croat politicianborn 1964
- ArkanSerbian military commandant and criminal1952–2000
- Željko PetrovićMontenegrin association football player and managerborn 1965
- Željko MilinovičSlovenian association football playerborn 1969
- Željko ŠturanovićPrime Minister of Montenegro (1960-2014)
- Željko ObradovićSerbian basketball player and coachborn 1960
- Željko IvanekSlovenian–American actorborn 1957
- Željko RebračaSerbian basketball player (born 1972)
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