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Honchar (Гончар): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Gonchar · Honczar. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 290 towns and villages of 23 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: 60 placesVolyn oblast: 3 placesLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 13 placesDonetsk oblast: 7 placesZhytomyr oblast: 11 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 18 placesKyiv oblast: 18 placesKirovohrad oblast: 25 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 5 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 9 placesRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblast: 11 placesKharkiv oblast: 17 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 28 placesCherkasy oblast: 34 placesChernihiv oblast: 18 placesChernivtsi oblast: 3 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–2
  • 3–7
  • 8–17
  • 18–60

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

60 places with the surname Гончар

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 6021%
Cherkasy oblast 3412%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2810%
Kirovohrad oblast 259%
Kyiv oblast 186%
Chernihiv oblast 186%
Kharkiv oblast 176%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 134%
Zhytomyr oblast 114%
Ternopil oblast 114%
All 23 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 93%
Sumy oblast 83%
Donetsk oblast 72%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 62%
Lviv oblast 52%
Luhansk oblast 41%
Volyn oblast 31%
Rivne oblast 31%
Chernivtsi oblast 31%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Ivano-Frankivsk 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

66 of 290 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 6024 of 60

and 36 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 349 of 34

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 287 of 28

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 256 of 25

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 184 of 18

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

Chernihiv oblast 184 of 18

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

Kharkiv oblast 174 of 17

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 133 of 13

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

Zhytomyr oblast 113 of 11

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

Ternopil oblast 113 of 11

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

Poltava oblast 93 of 9

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

Sumy oblast 83 of 8

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

Donetsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 63 of 6

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

Lviv oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Volyn oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
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Chernivtsi oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

14 entries in 7 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Романъ Гончаръsotnia МежырецкаяКанівський regimentp. 71
Панасъ Гончаръsotnia Маркова БажаненковаКорсунський regimentp. 87
Федоръ Гончаръsotnia ДершадскаяУманський regimentp. 140
Пилипъ Гончаръsotnia ЧернавецкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 180
Панасъ ГончаръКальницький regimentp. 181

5 of 14 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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