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Honcharenko (Гончаренко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Goncharenko · Honczarenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 338 towns and villages of 19 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: 10 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 10 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 14 placesDonetsk oblast: 13 placesZhytomyr oblast: 19 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 14 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 33 placesKyiv oblast: 33 placesKirovohrad oblast: 32 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 14 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 20 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 39 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 42 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 5 placesCherkasy oblast: 34 placesChernihiv oblast: 24 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–5
  • 8–13
  • 14–24
  • 32–42

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

42 places with the surname Гончаренко

All 42 places →

Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 4212%
Sumy oblast 3912%
Cherkasy oblast 3410%
Kyiv oblast 3310%
Kirovohrad oblast 329%
Chernihiv oblast 247%
Poltava oblast 206%
Zhytomyr oblast 196%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 144%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 144%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Mykolaiv oblast 144%
Donetsk oblast 134%
Vinnytsia oblast 103%
Luhansk oblast 103%
Kherson oblast 82%
Odesa oblast 51%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 51%
Volyn oblast 11%
Lviv 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

16 of 338 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 4224 of 42

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 399 of 39

and 30 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 348 of 34

and 26 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 337 of 33

and 26 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 327 of 32

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

Chernihiv oblast 245 of 24

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

Poltava oblast 204 of 20

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

Zhytomyr oblast 194 of 19

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 143 of 14

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 143 of 14

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

Mykolaiv oblast 143 of 14

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

Donetsk oblast 133 of 13

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

Vinnytsia oblast 103 of 10

and 7 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 →

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

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

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 53 of 5

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

Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

20 entries in 9 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Кальницький
  • Полтавський
  • Чигиринський
  • Брацлавський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Миргородський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Кондратъ ГончаренкоЧигиринський regimentp. 2
Микита ГончаренкоКанівський regimentp. 53
Гавришъ Гончаренкоsotnia ИмглѣевскаяКорсунський regimentp. 97
Грыцько ГончаренкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 125
Иванъ Гончаренкоsotnia ИваньгородскаяУманський regimentp. 136

5 of 20 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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