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Chaban (Чабан): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 139 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: 12 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 1 placeDnipropetrovsk oblast: 4 placesDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 3 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKirovohrad oblast: 12 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 17 placesMykolaiv oblast: 8 placesOdesa oblast: 10 placesPoltava oblast: 5 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 7 placesKharkiv oblast: 9 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 7 placesCherkasy oblast: 11 placesChernihiv oblast: 1 placeChernivtsi oblast: 3 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–2
  • 3–5
  • 6–8
  • 9–17

Selected oblast

Lviv oblast

17 places with the surname Чабан

All 17 places →

Coverage: Lviv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Lviv oblast 1712%
Vinnytsia oblast 129%
Kirovohrad oblast 129%
Cherkasy oblast 118%
Odesa oblast 107%
Kharkiv oblast 96%
Mykolaiv oblast 86%
Ternopil oblast 75%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 75%
Donetsk oblast 64%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 64%
Kyiv oblast 64%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 54%
Poltava oblast 54%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43%
Zhytomyr oblast 32%
Chernivtsi oblast 32%
Rivne oblast 21%
Sumy oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Luhansk oblast 11%
Chernihiv 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

32 of 139 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Lviv oblast 17All 17 places
Vinnytsia oblast 126 of 12

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

Kirovohrad oblast 126 of 12

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

Cherkasy oblast 116 of 11

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

Odesa oblast 105 of 10

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

Kharkiv oblast 95 of 9

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

Mykolaiv oblast 84 of 8

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

Ternopil oblast 74 of 7

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 74 of 7

and 3 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 →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Kyiv 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 →

Poltava oblast 53 of 5

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Zhytomyr oblast 3All 3 places
Chernivtsi oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 1All 1 place
Chernihiv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Черкаський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Чабанъsotnia ПетрашковаЧеркаський regimentp. 32

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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