Zdravko
Just 28 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been registered with it since 2000. The root is Slavic, from a word meaning "healthy".
Zdravko Pronunciation
What Zdravko means
Where Zdravko comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zdravko grows from the Slavic root zdrav, meaning healthy. Polish speakers hear it at once in zdrowy and in zdrowie, the word for health itself. The wish is plain: be well.
The name belongs mostly to the South Slavic lands, to Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia, where Zdravko has been a steady given name for generations. Its feminine form is Zdravka. A well-known bearer is Zdravko Čolić, the singer born in Sarajevo in 1951, popular across the former Yugoslavia. The same root sits in the Bulgarian toast nazdrave, raised over a full glass.
For a Polish family the name reads as foreign yet legible. The root is shared. When a teacher reads Zdravko from a class register, Polish ears map it back to zdrowy without a dictionary.
How many people are named Zdravko
1 in 762364 men in Poland is named Zdravko. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7973 among male names.
Zdravko as a middle name
Zdravko is a first name for 28 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5897th, between Zakir (4) and Zenobi (4).
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#5895 Zakarya4
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#5896 Zakir4
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#5897 Zdravko4
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#5898 Zenobi4
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#5899 Zinedine4