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Dudnyk (Дудник): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 178 towns and villages of 16 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: 29 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 11 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 8 placesDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 2 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 8 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 10 placesKyiv oblast: 10 placesKirovohrad oblast: 15 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 8 placesOdesa oblast: 8 placesPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 7 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 25 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 30 placesChernihiv oblastChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–4
  • 6–7
  • 8–11
  • 15–30

Selected oblast

Cherkasy oblast

30 places with the surname Дудник

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 3017%
Vinnytsia oblast 2916%
Kharkiv oblast 2514%
Kirovohrad oblast 158%
Luhansk oblast 116%
Kyiv oblast 106%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 84%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 84%
Mykolaiv oblast 84%
Odesa oblast 84%
All 16 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 74%
Donetsk oblast 63%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 63%
Poltava oblast 42%
Zhytomyr oblast 21%
Kherson 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 178 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Cherkasy oblast 3024 of 30

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

Vinnytsia oblast 2913 of 29

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

Kharkiv oblast 2511 of 25

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

Kirovohrad oblast 156 of 15

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

Luhansk oblast 114 of 11

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

Kyiv 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 →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 83 of 8

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

Mykolaiv oblast 83 of 8

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

Odesa oblast 83 of 8

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

Sumy oblast 73 of 7

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

Donetsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 63 of 6

and 3 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 →

Zhytomyr oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

8 entries in 2 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Чигиринський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Пилипъ Дудникъsotnia ОрловскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 16
Иванъ Дудникъsotnia ОрловскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 16
Грицько Дудникъsotnia ИванскаяУманський regimentp. 145
Семенъ Дудникъsotnia ДутянскаяУманський regimentp. 148
Каленикъ Дудникъsotnia ДутянскаяУманський regimentp. 148

5 of 8 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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