Ivanko Explained

Ivanko is a Slavic given name and a surname, a diminutive from the given name Ivan, a Slavic variant of the name "John". It may be a transliteration from Иванко or Иванько.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Ivanko (boyar), boyar, killer of Tsar Ivan Asen I and rebel
• Ivanko (despot), ruler of the Despotate of Dobruja from 1385 to 1389, and again from 1393 to 1399
• Ivanko Farolfi (1892–1945), lawyer and Croatian and Yugoslavian politician

Surname

• Sophia Ivanko, a contestant from Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
• Vitaliy Ivanko (born 1992), Ukrainian footballer

Fictional characters

• Ivanko, from "Ivanko, the Bear's Son", English translation of a Russian adaptation of the French tale Jean de l'Ours

Other

• Ivanko (album), 2020 album by Anna Lesko; see Anna Lesko discography
• "Ivanko, the Killer of Asen I" (aka Ivanko; Bulgarian: link=no|Иванко), 1872 play by Kliment of Tarnovo
• , Russian comedy TV series

See also

• • Alternate forms for the name John
• Ivanković
• Ivanka (disambiguation)
• Ivan (disambiguation)