Žarko

Žarko ( Cyrillic : Жарко) is a south Slavic male given name , which is mostly common in the states of the former Yugoslavia .

origin

The name Žarko comes from the South Slavic word žar ( embers ).

Name bearer

• Žarko Dolinar (1920–2003), Yugoslav table tennis player
• Žarko Nikolić (1936–2011), Yugoslav football player
• Žarko Paspalj (* 1966), Serbian basketball player
• Žarko Petan (1929–2014), Slovenian writer
• Žarko Puhovski (* 1946), professor of political philosophy at the University of Zagreb
• Žarko Šešum (* 1986), Serbian handball player
• Žarko Tomašević (* 1990), Montenegrin football player