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Holub (Голуб): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 267 towns and villages of 22 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 oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 8 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 18 placesDonetsk oblast: 16 placesZhytomyr oblast: 19 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKirovohrad oblast: 19 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 6 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 13 placesRivne oblast: 10 placesSumy oblast: 25 placesTernopil oblast: 10 placesKharkiv oblast: 17 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 15 placesCherkasy oblast: 16 placesChernihiv oblast: 20 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–5
  • 6–11
  • 13–17
  • 18–25

Selected oblast

Sumy oblast

25 places with the surname Голуб

All 25 places →

Coverage: Sumy oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 259%
Vinnytsia oblast 218%
Chernihiv oblast 207%
Zhytomyr oblast 197%
Kirovohrad oblast 197%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 187%
Kharkiv oblast 176%
Donetsk oblast 166%
Cherkasy oblast 166%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 156%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 135%
Kyiv oblast 114%
Rivne oblast 104%
Ternopil oblast 104%
Luhansk oblast 83%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 73%
Lviv oblast 62%
Mykolaiv oblast 62%
Kherson oblast 52%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Volyn 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

30 of 267 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Sumy oblast 2524 of 25

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

Vinnytsia oblast 216 of 21

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

Chernihiv oblast 205 of 20

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

Zhytomyr oblast 195 of 19

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

Kirovohrad oblast 195 of 19

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 185 of 18

and 13 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 →

Donetsk oblast 164 of 16

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

Cherkasy oblast 164 of 16

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 154 of 15

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

Poltava oblast 133 of 13

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

Kyiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Rivne oblast 103 of 10

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

Ternopil oblast 103 of 10

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

Luhansk oblast 83 of 8

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 73 of 7

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

Lviv oblast 63 of 6

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

Mykolaiv 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 →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 6 regiments

  • Полтавський
  • Чигиринський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Уласъ Голубъsotnia БужинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 7
Иванъ ГолубъКанівський regimentp. 53
Иванъ Голубъsotnia ДемковаКорсунський regimentp. 84
Иванъ ГолубъБілоцерківський regimentp. 110
Стецько ГолубъУманський regimentp. 143

5 of 7 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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