Stanko

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Stanko (Cyrillic: Станко) or Stańko is a gven name and a surname. It is a double diminutive of the Slavic masculine given names starting with 'Stan-': Stanislav, Stanimir, etc. -> Stan/Stań -> Stanko/Stańko. As a Polish surname, it has archaic feminine forms (still used colloquially): Stańkowa (by husband), Stańkówna (by father). Nicknames in Serbo-Croatian: Ćane, Ćano. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Stanko Abadžić (born 1952), Croatian photographer and photojournalist
• Stanko Barać (born 1986), Croatian professional basketball player
• Stanko Bloudek (1890–1959), Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, sportsman and sport inventor, designer, builder and educator
• Stanko Bubalo (born 1973), Croatian football striker
• Stanko Crnojević (1457–1528), Serbian lord and Ottoman vassal
• Stanko Karaman (1889–1959), researcher on amphipods and isopods
• Stanko Kotnik (1928–2004), Slovene professor of Slavic studies at the University of Maribor
• Stanko Lorger (1931–2014), Slovenian former hurdler and Olympic competitor
• Stanko Mladenovski (born 1937), Macedonian politician
• Stanko Mršić (born 1955), Croatian football manager and a former player
• Stanko Poklepović (1938–2018), Croatian football coach
• Stanko Prek (1915–1999), classical guitarist and composer from Slovenia
• Stanko Premrl (1880–1965), Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, composer and music teacher
• Stanko Subotić (born 1959), Geneva-based Serbian businessman
• Stanko Svitlica, retired Serbian football player
• Stanko Tavčar (1898–1945), Slovenian footballer and later a medical doctor
• Stanko Todorov (1920–1996), Bulgarian communist politician
• Stanko Vraz (born Jakob Frass) (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian poet
• Stanko Yovchev (born 1988), Bulgarian footballer

Surname

• Anastasia Stanko (born 1986), Ukrainian journalist
• Betsy Stanko (born 1950), American criminologist academic
• Ewa Grajkowska-Stańko (born 1948), Polish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s
• Stephen Stanko (1968–2025), American executed murderer
• Steve Stanko (1917–1978), American heavyweight weightlifter and bodybuilder
• Tomasz Stańko (1942–2018), Polish jazz trumpeter, composer, and improviser

See also

• All pages with titles containing Stanko
• Stanco
• Stancho
• Staněk
• Stankov
• Stanko Mlakar Stadium (Slovene: Štadion Stanka Mlakarja) is a multi-purpose stadium in Kranj, Slovenia
• Stankovce
• Stankovci
• Stanković
• Stankovo (disambiguation)
• Stankowo (disambiguation)
• Stenka (name)

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