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Chornyi (Чорний): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Chorny · Czornyi. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Counted together with the feminine form Чорна.

Recorded in 464 towns and villages of 23 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: 71 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 6 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 23 placesDonetsk oblast: 9 placesZhytomyr oblast: 20 placesZakarpattia oblast: 2 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 18 placesKyiv oblast: 18 placesKirovohrad oblast: 26 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 26 placesMykolaiv oblast: 19 placesOdesa oblast: 12 placesPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 7 placesSumy oblast: 4 placesTernopil oblast: 41 placesKharkiv oblast: 11 placesKherson oblast: 15 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 94 placesCherkasy oblast: 26 placesChernihiv oblast: 7 placesChernivtsi oblast: 5 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2–6
  • 7–11
  • 12–23
  • 26–94

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

94 places with the surname Чорний

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Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 9420%
Vinnytsia oblast 7115%
Ternopil oblast 419%
Kirovohrad oblast 266%
Lviv oblast 266%
Cherkasy oblast 266%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 235%
Zhytomyr oblast 204%
Mykolaiv oblast 194%
Kyiv oblast 184%
All 23 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kherson oblast 153%
Odesa oblast 123%
Kharkiv oblast 112%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 102%
Donetsk oblast 92%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 82%
Rivne oblast 72%
Chernihiv oblast 72%
Luhansk oblast 61%
Chernivtsi oblast 51%
Poltava oblast 41%
Sumy oblast 41%
Zakarpattia oblast 21%

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

124 of 464 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 9424 of 94

and 70 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 7112 of 71

and 59 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 417 of 41

and 34 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 264 of 26

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 264 of 26

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 264 of 26

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 233 of 23

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 203 of 20

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Mykolaiv oblast 193 of 19

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 183 of 18

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 153 of 15

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Odesa oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 103 of 10

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

Donetsk oblast 93 of 9

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 83 of 8

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

Rivne oblast 73 of 7

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

Chernihiv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Chernivtsi oblast 53 of 5

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

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

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

Sumy oblast 43 of 4

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

Zakarpattia oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

96 entries in 16 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Уманський
  • Переяславський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Київський
  • Прилуцький
  • Чернігівський
  • Черкаський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кальницький
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Семенъ ЧорныйЧигиринський regimentp. 2
Федоръ Чорныйsotnia ШубцеваЧеркаський regimentp. 30
Васько Чорныйsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 55
Семенъ Чорныйsotnia ВеруненковаКорсунський regimentp. 83
Романъ ЧорныйБілоцерківський regimentp. 112

5 of 96 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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