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Herman (Герман): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 119 towns and villages of 24 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: 3 placesVolyn oblast: 3 placesLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 5 placesZakarpattia oblast: 2 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 8 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKirovohrad oblast: 4 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 8 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 4 placesSumy oblast: 6 placesTernopil oblast: 12 placesKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 4 placesCherkasy oblast: 2 placesChernihiv oblast: 12 placesChernivtsi oblast: 5 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3
  • 4–6
  • 7–12

Selected oblast

Ternopil oblast

12 places with the surname Герман

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Ternopil oblast 1210%
Chernihiv oblast 1210%
Donetsk oblast 119%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 87%
Lviv oblast 87%
Kharkiv oblast 76%
Sumy oblast 65%
Zhytomyr oblast 54%
Chernivtsi oblast 54%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43%
All 24 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 43%
Kirovohrad oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Rivne oblast 43%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 43%
Vinnytsia oblast 33%
Volyn oblast 33%
Odesa oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 22%
Zakarpattia oblast 22%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Cherkasy oblast 22%
Poltava 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

22 of 119 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Ternopil oblast 12All 12 places
Chernihiv oblast 128 of 12

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

Donetsk oblast 117 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 85 of 8

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

Lviv oblast 85 of 8

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

Kharkiv oblast 74 of 7

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

Sumy oblast 64 of 6

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

Zhytomyr oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Kyiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Kirovohrad oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Rivne oblast 43 of 4

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 43 of 4

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

Vinnytsia oblast 3All 3 places
Volyn oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Cherkasy oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place

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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