Zdenko is a male given name of Slovak, Slovene or Croatian origin. There are a number of competing explanations for the meaning of the name: * the slavic term '' zdenac,'' meaning a well * from the slavic term '' zidati'', meaning to build or to create * Slavic version of the name Sidonius (meaning ''of

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'') * as a

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of the given names Zdeslav or Zdeněk. There are also claims connecting it to the name Sidney.Zeitschrift für Namenforschung, Band 17, Seite 182 (1941). R. Oldenbourg. Denny can be used as a short form (

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) of the name. The female form is Zdenka/Zdeňka.

People with this name

* Zdenko Adamović, Croatian football manager and player *

Zdenko Babić Zdenko Babić (born c. 1960) is a retired Croatian basketball player. He is best known for scoring 144 points in a single game, a record in FIBA-sanctioned competition. On 10 October 1985, Babić scored 144 points playing for KK Zadar in a game of ...

, Croatian basketball player *

Zdenko Balaš Zdenko Balaš ( Serbian: Зденко Балаш, born 9 September 1940 in Slavonski Brod) is a Croatian coxswain. He competed for Yugoslavia in the 1964 European Rowing Championships in Amsterdam in the eight competition where he won a bronze m ...

, Croatian rower *

Zdenko Baotić Zdenko Baotić (born March 9, 1985) is a Bosnian retired football goalkeeper. Club career Baotić's first club was HNK Orašje, but after several seasons with the Swans (as they are also known), he decided to go on and play for some bigger club. ...

, Bosnian footballer * Zdenko Bego, Yugoslav rower * Zdenko Feyfar, Czech photographer *

Zdenko Frťala Zdenko Frťala (born 3 August 1970) is a Slovak football manager and former player. As a player, Frťala played in the Czechoslovak First League for Trnava and in the Czech First League for Teplice. He made a total of 192 top-flight appearances ...

, Slovak football manager and player *

Zdenko Hibšer Zdenko Hibšer (8 February 1950 - 25 July 2014) was a Croatian handball player and former coach. Career Hibšer entered the first team of Kvarner in 1967. He quickly entered Yugoslav First League with his team and was part of the golden generati ...

, Croatian handballer *

Zdenko Jedvaj Zdenko Jedvaj (born 13 January 1966) is a retired Bosnian football player who played for several Croatian, Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Austrian clubs. His son Tin Jedvaj Tin Jedvaj (; born 28 November 1995) is a Croatian professional footballer ...

, Bosnian footballer *

Zdenko Jelčić Zdenko Jelčić (born 8 August 1946) is a Croatian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1972. Selected filmography References External links * 1946 births Living people People from Čapljina Croatian male film ac ...

, Croatian actor *

Zdenko Jurčević Zdenko Jurčević (born December 2, 1985) is a former Croatian footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Early career Jurčević received his football training at the youth level with his local club HNK Tomislav and later with Hajdu ...

, Croatian footballer *

Zdenko Kaprálik Zdenko Kaprálik (born 28 August 1985) is a Slovak professional footballer. Career Born in Dolný Kubín, Žilina Region, Kaprálik has played for Inter Bratislava, FC Zwolle, SC Cambuur and FC Spartak Trnava FC Spartak Trnava () is a pr ...

, Slovak footballer *

Zdenko Kobešćak Zdenko is a male given name of Slovak, Slovene or Croatian origin. There are a number of competing explanations for the meaning of the name: * the slavic term '' zdenac,'' meaning a well * from the slavic term '' zidati'', meaning to build or t ...

, Croatian footballer *

Zdenko Kolar Zdenko Kolar ( sr-cyr, Зденко Колар) is a Serbian bass guitarist, most notable as the member of Idoli and Zona B. Biography Kolar was born in Zemun in 1956 where he lived until 1963 when he moved to inner town in Belgrade. He moved ...

, Serbian bass guitarist *

Zdenko Kožul Zdenko Kožul (born 21 May 1966) is a Croatian chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster and was the 2006 European champion. Chess career Born in the north-western Bosnian town of Bihać (then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), Ko ...

, Croatian chess grandmaster *

Zdenko Križić Zdenko Ivan Križić (born 2 February 1953) is a Croatian Discalced Carmelite and prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been the Archbishop of Split-Makarska since September 2023. He was the bishop of Gospić-Senj from 2016 to 2023. Educati ...

, Archbishop of Split * Zdenko Lobkowitz, Austrian nobleman and officer * Zdenko Miletić, Croatian footballer *

Zdenko Morovic Zdenko Morović Belfrain (31 August 1966 – 12 February 2024) was a Venezuelan footballer who played as a midfielder. He made five appearances for the Venezuela national team from 1987 to 1989. He was also part of Venezuela's squad for the 19 ...

, Venezuelan footballer *

Zdenko Muf Zdenko Muf (Serbian Cyrillic: Зденко Муф; born 21 July 1971) is a Serbian football manager and former player. Playing career Born in Smederevska Palanka, Muf started out at his local club Mladost Goša, before moving to Radnički Beog ...

, Serbian football manager and player *

Zdenko Runjić Zdenko Runjić (26 October 1942 – 27 October 2004) was a Croatian songwriter. In his long career, he established himself as one of the most prolific and most popular songwriters of former Yugoslavia and Croatia. Biography Runjić was born on 26 ...

, Croatian songwriter * Zdenko Seselja, Australian politician *

Zdenko Škrabalo Zdenko Škrabalo (4 August 1929 – 12 January 2014) was a Croatian physician, academician and diplomat and former foreign minister of Croatia. After finishing high school in his home town of Sombor, Škrabalo enrolled at the University of Zag ...

, Croatian physician and politician *

Zdenko Hans Skraup Zdenko Hans Skraup (; March 3, 1850 – September 10, 1910) was a chemist from Austria-Hungary, who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis. Life Skraup was born in Prague, where he attended the Oberrealschule from 1860 ...

, Czech-Austrian chemist *

Zdenko Strižić Zdenko Strižić (19 May 1902 – 1 November 1990) was a Croatian architect, urban planner and teacher. Education Strižić was the son of Dr. Miroslav and Irena pl. Strižić od Visnjevca and brother of Božidar, Jaroslav, Marcel and Ivan. He ...

, Croatian architect * Zdenko Švigelj, Slovenian skier * Zdenko Trebuľa, President of the Košice Self-governing Region since 2006 * Zdenko Uzorinac, Croatian table tennis player *

Zdenko Verdenik Zdenko Verdenik (born 2 May 1949) is a Slovenian football manager and former player who played as a winger. He coached NK Olimpija, Slovenia under-21 team, Slovenia senior team, FK Austria Wien, JEF United Ichihara, Nagoya Grampus Eight, V ...

, Slovenian football manager *

Zdenko Vinski Zdenko Vinski (3 May 1913 – 13 October 1996) was a notable Croatian archaeologist. Vinski was born to a Jewish family on 3 May 1913 in Zagreb where he finished elementary and high school. His father was Oton Vinski, an influential Croatian ba ...

, Croatian archeologist * Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić, Croatian computer scientist * Zdenko Vukasović, Croatian footballer *

Zdenko Zorko Zdenko Zorko (born 18 August 1950) is a Croatian former Team handball, handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics for SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. In his youth Zdenko Zorko played association footbal ...

, Croatian handball player

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