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Bozhko (Божко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Bożko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 129 towns and villages of 17 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: 1 placeVolyn oblast: 3 placesLuhansk oblast: 8 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 6 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 16 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 10 placesRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 15 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 12 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblastCherkasy oblast: 10 placesChernihiv oblast: 13 placesChernivtsi oblast
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  • 10–16

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Zaporizhzhia oblast

16 places with the surname Божко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1612%
Sumy oblast 1512%
Chernihiv oblast 1310%
Kharkiv oblast 129%
Poltava oblast 108%
Cherkasy oblast 108%
Kyiv oblast 97%
Luhansk oblast 86%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 65%
Kirovohrad oblast 65%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Mykolaiv oblast 54%
Kherson oblast 54%
Donetsk oblast 43%
Volyn oblast 32%
Odesa oblast 32%
Rivne oblast 32%
Vinnytsia 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

3 of 129 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Zaporizhzhia oblast 16All 16 places
Sumy oblast 159 of 15

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

Chernihiv oblast 138 of 13

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

Kharkiv oblast 127 of 12

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

Poltava oblast 106 of 10

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

Cherkasy oblast 106 of 10

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

Kyiv oblast 95 of 9

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

Luhansk oblast 84 of 8

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Kirovohrad oblast 63 of 6

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

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Volyn oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
  • КозятинХмільницький р-н (Козятинський р-н до 2020)
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

5 entries in 4 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Київський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Божкоsotnia МихайловскаяКанівський regimentp. 76
Иванъ Божкоsotnia ИвахниченковаКорсунський regimentp. 85
Андрей Божкоsotnia БилецкогоКиївський regimentp. 200
Иванъ Божкоsotnia РомонскаяМиргородський regimentp. 272
Дацько Божкоsotnia КонстантиновскаяМиргородський regimentp. 274

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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