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Denysenko (Денисенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 250 towns and villages of 18 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: 1 placeVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 9 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 9 placesDonetsk oblast: 17 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 20 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 41 placesKyiv oblast: 41 placesKirovohrad oblast: 10 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 25 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 21 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 36 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 15 placesChernihiv oblast: 29 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2–9
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  • 21–41

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

41 places with the surname Денисенко

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Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 4116%
Kharkiv oblast 3614%
Chernihiv oblast 2912%
Poltava oblast 2510%
Sumy oblast 218%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 208%
Donetsk oblast 177%
Cherkasy oblast 156%
Kirovohrad oblast 104%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 94%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 94%
Zhytomyr oblast 62%
Kherson oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 21%
Vinnytsia oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

8 of 250 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 4124 of 41

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

Kharkiv oblast 3611 of 36

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 299 of 29

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

Poltava oblast 258 of 25

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

Sumy oblast 216 of 21

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 206 of 20

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 175 of 17

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

Cherkasy oblast 154 of 15

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 103 of 10

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 93 of 9

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

Luhansk oblast 93 of 9

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

Zhytomyr oblast 63 of 6

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

48 entries in 15 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Грицько ДенисенкоЧигиринський regimentp. 3
Ярмола Денисенкоsotnia МошенскаЧеркаський regimentp. 46
Мисько ДенисенкоКанівський regimentp. 54
Яцько ДенисенкоКорсунський regimentp. 79
Грицько Денисенкоsotnia ВузовскаяУманський regimentp. 138

5 of 48 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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