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Babych (Бабич): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Babich · Babycz. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 255 towns and villages of 22 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

The index covers only the source material processed so far. An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there; a shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 8 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 8 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 7 placesZhytomyr oblast: 22 placesZakarpattia oblast: 6 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 8 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 26 placesKyiv oblast: 26 placesKirovohrad oblast: 15 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 12 placesRivne oblast: 15 placesSumy oblast: 21 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 21 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 20 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 30 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 6–7
  • 8–15
  • 20–30

Selected oblast

Chernihiv oblast

30 places with the surname Бабич

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 3012%
Kyiv oblast 2610%
Zhytomyr oblast 229%
Sumy oblast 218%
Kharkiv oblast 218%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 208%
Kirovohrad oblast 156%
Rivne oblast 156%
Poltava oblast 125%
Vinnytsia oblast 83%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 83%
Luhansk oblast 83%
Kherson oblast 83%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73%
Donetsk oblast 73%
Lviv oblast 73%
Zakarpattia oblast 62%
Cherkasy oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Odesa oblast 21%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%

Each oblast name opens its coverage page: parishes, books and what has been digitized.

Years of the sources

These books concern 1917–1960. Families in the 19th century were recorded in parish registers. Those are what we read, with a frame number beside every name.

Memory books 1917–1960

  • “Rehabilitated by History” («Реабілітовані історією»)1917–1960
  • National Book of Memory of Holodomor Victims1932–1933

Places with a ready parish description

23 of 255 places

Parish, books and what has been digitized: open a place.

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 3024 of 30

and 6 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 268 of 26

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 226 of 22

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 216 of 21

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 216 of 21

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 206 of 20

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 154 of 15

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Rivne oblast 154 of 15

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

and 5 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zakarpattia oblast 63 of 6

and 3 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 53 of 5

and 2 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place more in the oblast · all in the search →

Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

16 entries in 11 regiments

  • Полтавський
  • Прилуцький
  • Кропивнянський
  • Черкаський
  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський
  • Переяславський
  • Миргородський

The same surname in 1649 does not by itself mean this was your ancestor.

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Лавринъ Бабычъsotnia ДомонтовскаяЧеркаський regimentp. 50
Степанъ Бабычъsotnia ТулюпенковаКорсунський regimentp. 89
Грыцько БабычъБілоцерківський regimentp. 113
Данило Бабичъsotnia ВузовскаяУманський regimentp. 137
Иванъ Бабычъsotnia БалабановскаяКальницький regimentp. 187

5 of 16 entries shown. Names and sotnias as spelled in the 1875 edition of the register (Moscow, edited by O. M. Bodianskyi); "p." is the page of that edition.

What these books can and cannot tell you

They can

  • Show the towns and villages where the surname was recorded in 1917–1960.
  • Suggest which oblast to start the search in.

They cannot

  • This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.
  • An absent place does not mean the surname was never used there.
  • A shared surname does not establish family origin or kinship.

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Source: state memory books, «Реабілітовані історією» and the National Book of Memory of the Victims of the Holodomor. We publish surnames only: no first names, dates or fates.

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