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Buhai (Бугай): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 142 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: 7 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 6 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 11 placesDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 3 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 17 placesKyiv oblast: 17 placesKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblast: 6 placesSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblast: 8 placesKharkiv oblast: 14 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 14 placesCherkasy oblast: 4 placesChernihiv oblast: 9 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–5
  • 6–8
  • 9–17

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

17 places with the surname Бугай

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Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 1712%
Kharkiv oblast 1410%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1410%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 118%
Poltava oblast 118%
Chernihiv oblast 96%
Sumy oblast 86%
Ternopil oblast 86%
Vinnytsia oblast 75%
Kirovohrad oblast 75%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 64%
Luhansk oblast 64%
Rivne oblast 64%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 54%
Cherkasy oblast 43%
Zhytomyr oblast 32%
Volyn oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 11%
Lviv oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

16 of 142 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 17All 17 places
Kharkiv oblast 147 of 14

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 147 of 14

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 116 of 11

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

Poltava oblast 116 of 11

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

Chernihiv oblast 95 of 9

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

Sumy oblast 84 of 8

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

Ternopil oblast 84 of 8

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

Vinnytsia oblast 73 of 7

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

Kirovohrad oblast 73 of 7

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

Donetsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Luhansk oblast 63 of 6

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

Rivne oblast 63 of 6

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 53 of 5

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

Cherkasy oblast 43 of 4

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

Zhytomyr oblast 3All 3 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

10 entries in 8 regiments

  • Кропивнянський
  • Чернігівський
  • Черкаський
  • Канівський
  • Київський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Васько Бугайsotnia МикитинаЧеркаський regimentp. 44
Матвѣй Бугайsotnia ИржышчовскаяКанівський regimentp. 74
Гараеимъ Бугайsotnia ОбуховскаяКиївський regimentp. 207
Максимъ Бугайsotnia АрклиевскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 246
Климъ БугайМиргородський regimentp. 256

5 of 10 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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