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Gojko

Male#543 most common in Croatia944 people in Croatia
Meaning:
One who is nurtured; from 'to nurture, cherish'
Origin:
Slavic

About the name Gojko

From the Slavic 'gojiti' ('to nurture, cherish'), meaning 'one who is nurtured'. A traditional Slavic name.

Popularity with newborns

Gojko has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.

People with this name in Croatia

944 people in Croatia are called Gojko, according to the 2021 census. That is #543 among all the names in Imenko.

Where the name is found

Gojko is recorded in 18 of Croatia's 21 counties.

Bjelovarsko-bilogorskaBrodsko-posavskaDubrovačko-neretvanskaGrad ZagrebIstarskaKarlovačkaKoprivničko-križevačkaLičko-senjskaOsječko-baranjskaPožeško-slavonskaPrimorsko-goranskaSisačko-moslavačkaSplitsko-dalmatinskaVirovitičko-podravskaVukovarsko-srijemskaZadarskaZagrebačkaŠibensko-kninska

Characteristics

SlavicTraditionalRare

Notable people called Gojko

  • Gojko ŠušakCroatian politician, Minister of Defence in the 1990s

Sources

Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.