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Slavko

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Slavic languages origin

Slavko has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Slavko, 1921

1 in 467,000

Slavko over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Slavko: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Slavic languages origin

Slavic languages

What Slavko means

Slavko is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Slavko is used in English, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Slavko is pronounced /slǎːʋko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Slavko between 1921 and 1921. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1921; its best national rank was #4,890 in 1921.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Slavko?

Slavko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1921, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1921
1 in 467,000
5 of 2,334,460 births
Among boys only
1 in 220,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1921
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
323,626 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Slavko sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1921 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 323,626 children born in 1921 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Slavko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Slavkos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Slavko was born before 1921 — so the typical Slavko is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Slavko rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (5)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,890
1921

Spellings of Slavko

Slavko is not the most common spelling — Flavio is, with 99.8% against Slavko's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Slavko around the world

Where Slavko ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1939–2021
    #6,260
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1952–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Slavko by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,890
1921
Peak year
1921
5 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1921
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Slavko

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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