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Demydenko (Демиденко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 107 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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Chernihiv oblast

24 places with the surname Демиденко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 2422%
Kyiv oblast 1716%
Sumy oblast 1514%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 77%
Poltava oblast 77%
Cherkasy oblast 77%
Mykolaiv oblast 66%
Kharkiv oblast 66%
Kirovohrad oblast 55%
Vinnytsia oblast 33%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 33%
Donetsk oblast 22%
Zhytomyr oblast 11%
Luhansk oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Kherson oblast 11%
Khmelnytskyi 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

5 of 107 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 24All 24 places
Kyiv oblast 1712 of 17

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

Sumy oblast 1511 of 15

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 75 of 7

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

Poltava oblast 75 of 7

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

Cherkasy oblast 75 of 7

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

Mykolaiv oblast 64 of 6

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

Kharkiv oblast 64 of 6

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

Kirovohrad oblast 53 of 5

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

Vinnytsia oblast 3All 3 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 3All 3 places
Donetsk oblast 2All 2 places
Zhytomyr oblast 1All 1 place
Luhansk oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

37 entries in 14 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Олекса Демиденкоsotnia СмиловскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 13
Иванъ Демиденкоsotnia ОстровскогоЧеркаський regimentp. 44
Таврило Демиденкоsotnia КулагинаКанівський regimentp. 60
Миеько Демиденкоsotnia КурышковаКорсунський regimentp. 91
Павло ДемиденкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 110

5 of 37 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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