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:

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.
 * 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 Sidon)
 * as a diminutive of the given names Zdeslav or Zdenek.

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 Fibich or Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer
 * Zdenko Filípek, Slovak footballer
 * 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 Štrba or Zdeno Štrba, Slovak footballer
 * 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 Olympic handball player