# Janko (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/janko/  
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 | Yanko |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | 12,890 |

## People named Janko

- Janko Bobetko, Croatian general (1919–2003)
- Janko Jesenský, Czechoslovak poet, lawyer, politician and translator (1874–1945)
- Janko Polić Kamov, Croatian writer (1886–1910)
- Janko Alexy, Czechoslovak educator, prosaic and writer (1894-1970)
- Janko Drašković, Croatian politician and poet (1770-1856)
- Janko Vuković, Commander-in-chief of the navy of State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.
- Janko Leskovar, Croatian novelist (1861–1949)
- Janko Janković, Croatian footballer
- Janko Rodin, Croatian footballer (1900–1974)
- Janko Bozovic, Austrian handball player
- Janko Popović Volarić, Croatian actor
- Janko Pacar, footballer Fc Cartagena

## 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.