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Chaika (Чайка): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 171 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: 17 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 8 placesDonetsk oblast: 13 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 8 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 7 placesRivne oblast: 10 placesSumy oblast: 11 placesTernopil oblast: 11 placesKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 18 placesCherkasy oblast: 8 placesChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–3
  • 4–7
  • 8–10
  • 11–18

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

18 places with the surname Чайка

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1811%
Vinnytsia oblast 1710%
Kyiv oblast 159%
Donetsk oblast 138%
Sumy oblast 116%
Ternopil oblast 116%
Rivne oblast 106%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 85%
Lviv oblast 85%
Cherkasy oblast 85%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 85%
Kirovohrad oblast 74%
Poltava oblast 74%
Kharkiv oblast 74%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 64%
Luhansk oblast 53%
Zhytomyr oblast 42%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 11%
Kherson 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

29 of 171 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 18All 18 places
Vinnytsia oblast 177 of 17

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 157 of 15

and 8 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 136 of 13

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

Sumy oblast 115 of 11

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

Ternopil oblast 115 of 11

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

Rivne oblast 104 of 10

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 83 of 8

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

Lviv oblast 83 of 8

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

Cherkasy oblast 83 of 8

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

Chernihiv oblast 83 of 8

and 5 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 →

Poltava oblast 73 of 7

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

Kharkiv oblast 73 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 63 of 6

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

Luhansk oblast 53 of 5

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

Zhytomyr oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

9 entries in 9 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Канівський
  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський
  • Переяславський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Миргородський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Василь Чайкаsotnia ПотоцкаяЧигиринський regimentp. 23
Романъ Чайкаsotnia ВолынцоваКанівський regimentp. 58
Василь ЧайкаУманський regimentp. 142
Иванъ Чайкаsotnia ПогребыскаяКальницький regimentp. 186
Степанъ Чайкаsotnia ТрипольскаяКиївський regimentp. 206

5 of 9 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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