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Borovyk (Боровик): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Borovik · Borowyk. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 101 towns and villages of 20 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: 4 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 6 placesDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 2 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 11 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 8 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 5 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 14 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Chernihiv oblast

14 places with the surname Боровик

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Coverage: Chernihiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 1414%
Kyiv oblast 1313%
Sumy oblast 1111%
Cherkasy oblast 99%
Kharkiv oblast 88%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 66%
Zhytomyr oblast 66%
Poltava oblast 55%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 55%
Vinnytsia oblast 44%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 33%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 33%
Kirovohrad oblast 33%
Rivne oblast 33%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Lviv oblast 22%
Volyn oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

8 of 101 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 14All 14 places
Kyiv oblast 1310 of 13

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

Sumy oblast 118 of 11

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

Cherkasy oblast 97 of 9

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

Kharkiv oblast 86 of 8

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 64 of 6

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

Zhytomyr oblast 64 of 6

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

Poltava oblast 53 of 5

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 53 of 5

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

Vinnytsia oblast 43 of 4

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

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
  • ГаїКременецький р-н
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 5 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Брацлавський
  • Чигиринський
  • Черкаський
  • Переяславський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Степанъ Боровикъsotnia ЖаботинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 11
Олекса Боровикъsotnia СавинаЧеркаський regimentp. 45
Пархомъ Боровикъsotnia СтаяцкаяКанівський regimentp. 76
Боровикъ'sotnia КраснянскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 163
Грышко Боровикъsotnia БасанскаяПереяславський regimentp. 233

5 of 7 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.

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

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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