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 , meaning a well
- from the slavic term ', meaning to build or to create
- Slavic version of the name Sidonius (meaning of Sidon)
- as a diminutive of the given names Zdeslav or ZdenÃÂk.
There are also claims connecting it to the name Sidney. Denny can be used as a short form (hypocorism) of the name. The female form is Zdenka/ZdeÃ
Âka.
People with this name
- Zdenko AdamoviÃÂ, Croatian football manager and player
- Zdenko BabiÃÂ, Croatian basketball player
- Zdenko BalaÃ
¡, Croatian rower
- Zdenko BaotiÃÂ, Bosnian footballer
- Zdenko Bego, Yugoslav rower
- Zdenko Feyfar, Czech photographer
- Zdenko FrÃ
Â¥ala, Slovak football manager and player
- Zdenko HibÃ
¡er, Croatian handballer
- Zdenko Jedvaj, Bosnian footballer
- Zdenko JelÃÂiÃÂ, Croatian actor
- Zdenko JurÃÂeviÃÂ, Croatian footballer
- Zdenko Kaprálik, Slovak footballer
- Zdenko KobeÃ
¡ÃÂak, Croatian footballer
- Zdenko Kolar, Serbian bass guitarist
- Zdenko KoÃ
¾ul, Croatian chess grandmaster
- Zdenko KriÃ
¾iÃÂ, Archbishop of Split
- Zdenko Lobkowitz, Austrian nobleman and officer
- Zdenko MiletiÃÂ, Croatian footballer
- Zdenko Morovic, Venezuelan footballer
- Zdenko Muf, Serbian football manager and player
- Zdenko RunjiÃÂ, Croatian songwriter
- Zdenko Seselja, Australian politician
- Zdenko Ã
 krabalo, Croatian physician and politician
- Zdenko Hans Skraup, Czech-Austrian chemist
- Zdenko StriÃ
¾iÃÂ, Croatian architect
- Zdenko Ã
 vigelj, Slovenian skier
- Zdenko Trebuþa, President of the KoÃ
¡ice Self-governing Region since 2006
- Zdenko Uzorinac, Croatian table tennis player
- Zdenko Verdenik, Slovenian football manager
- Zdenko Vinski, Croatian archeologist
- Zdenko "Denny" VrandeÃÂiÃÂ, Croatian computer scientist
- Zdenko VukasoviÃÂ, Croatian footballer
- Zdenko Zorko, Croatian handball player
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