# Željko (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zeljko/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | 4,721 |

## People named Željko

- Željko Komšić, Bosnian Croat politician
- Zeljko Kalac, Australian association football player
- Željko Matuš, Croatian footballer
- Željko Čajkovski, Croatian footballer (1925-2016)
- Željko Franulović, Croatian tennis player
- Željko Buvač, Bosnian football coach
- Željko Bebek, Bosnian-Herzegovinian singer
- Željko Pahek, comic-book and graphic novel creator, scriptwriter, painter, illustrator and caricaturist
- Željko Jerkov, Croatian basketball player
- Željko Reiner, Croatian politician and physician
- Željko Šakić, Croatian basketball player (born 1988)
- Željko Musa, Croatian handball player

## 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.