Given name · also Slavic
Slavko
Slavko is a masculine given name from Slavic. It is used in English, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Slavko comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Slavic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Slavko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1921. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 346 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Slavko’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Slavko is a diminutive of Dobroslav. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Slavko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Славко. In Slovak usage, Slavko is a diminutive of Slavomír.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Slavko has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Slavko
- Slavko VinčićSlovenian association football refereeborn 1979
- Slavko KvaternikCroatian soldier and politician (1878–1947)
- Slavko GolužaCroatian handball playerborn 1971
- Slavko VranešMontenegrin basketball player (born 1983)
- Slavko ŠtimacSerbian actor of croat originborn 1960
- Slavko AvsenikSlovenian musician (1929–2015)
- Slavko JanevskiMacedonian writer1920–2000
- Slavko LušticaYugoslavian footballer (1923-1992)
- Slavko ObadovSerbian judoka (1948–2025)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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