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Derkach (Деркач): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 240 towns and villages of 21 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: 21 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 10 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 9 placesDonetsk oblast: 9 placesZhytomyr oblast: 13 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 11 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 19 placesKyiv oblast: 19 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 12 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 14 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 9 placesTernopil oblast: 16 placesKharkiv oblast: 17 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 21 placesCherkasy oblast: 18 placesChernihiv oblast: 17 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 2–4
  • 9–10
  • 11–16
  • 17–21

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

21 places with the surname Деркач

All 21 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 219%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 219%
Kyiv oblast 198%
Cherkasy oblast 188%
Kharkiv oblast 177%
Chernihiv oblast 177%
Ternopil oblast 167%
Poltava oblast 146%
Zhytomyr oblast 135%
Lviv oblast 125%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 115%
Luhansk oblast 104%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 94%
Donetsk oblast 94%
Rivne oblast 94%
Sumy oblast 94%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 42%
Kirovohrad oblast 31%
Mykolaiv oblast 31%
Kherson oblast 31%
Odesa 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

39 of 240 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 21All 21 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 217 of 21

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

Kyiv oblast 196 of 19

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 186 of 18

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

Kharkiv oblast 175 of 17

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

Chernihiv oblast 175 of 17

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

Ternopil oblast 165 of 16

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

Poltava oblast 144 of 14

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

Zhytomyr oblast 134 of 13

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

Lviv oblast 124 of 12

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 113 of 11

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

Luhansk 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 →

Donetsk oblast 93 of 9

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

Rivne oblast 93 of 9

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

Sumy oblast 93 of 9

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

17 entries in 10 regiments

  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Чигиринський
  • Канівський
  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Переяславський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Сава ДеркачъЧигиринський regimentp. 1
Сергий ДеркачъКанівський regimentp. 53
Лукянъ Деркачъsotnia Маркова БажаненковаКорсунський regimentp. 88
Тишко ДеркачъБілоцерківський regimentp. 109
Педоръ ДеркачъУманський regimentp. 143

5 of 17 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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