Zdenko

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
as a diminutive of the given names Zdeslav or Zdeněk.

There are also claims connecting it to the name Sidney. Denny can be used as a short form of the name. The female form is Zdenka/Zdeňka.

People with this name

Zdenko Adamović, Croatian football manager and player
Zdenko Babić, Croatian basketball player
Zdenko Balaš, Croatian rower
Zdenko Baotić, Bosnian footballer
Zdenko Bego, Yugoslav rower
Zdenko Feyfar, Czech photographer
Zdenko Frťala, Slovak football manager and player
Zdenko Hibšer, Croatian handballer
Zdenko Jedvaj, Bosnian footballer
Zdenko Jelčić, Croatian actor
Zdenko Jurčević, Croatian footballer
Zdenko Kaprálik, Slovak footballer
Zdenko Kobešćak, Croatian footballer
Zdenko Kolar, Serbian bass guitarist
Zdenko Kožul, Croatian chess grandmaster
Zdenko Križić, Archbishop of Split
Zdenko Lobkowitz, Austrian nobleman and officer
Zdenko Miletić, Croatian footballer
Zdenko Morovic, Venezuelan footballer
Zdenko Muf, Serbian football manager and player
Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter
Zdenko Seselja, Australian politician
Zdenko Škrabalo, Croatian physician and politician
Zdenko Hans Skraup, Czech-Austrian chemist
Zdenko Strižić, 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, Slovenian football manager
Zdenko Vinski, Croatian archeologist
Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić, Croatian computer scientist
Zdenko Vukasović, Croatian footballer
Zdenko Zorko, Croatian handball player