# Darko (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/darko/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 67 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 67 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Darko.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | 7,186 |
| 2010 | 7 | 9,914 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,702 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,036 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7,204 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9,798 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,085 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12,758 |
| 2023 | 10 | 7,847 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,737 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Дарко
- French: Darko
- Russian: Дарко

## People named Darko

- Darko Čurlinov, association football player
- Darko Rundek, Croatian rock musician
- Darko Todorović, Bosnian association football player
- Darko Bodul, Croatian footballer
- Darko Maletić, Bosnia and Herzegovina association football player
- Darko Planinić, Croatian basketball player (born 1990)
- Darko Bjedov, association football player
- Darko Suvin, Croatian Canadian literary critic
- Darko Butorović, footballer
- Darko Miladin, Croatian footballer
- Darko Mitrevski, film director
- Darko Čeferin, football referee

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.