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Honcharov (Гончаров): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Goncharov · Honczarow. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Counted together with the feminine form Гончарова.

Recorded in 217 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: 3 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 33 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 11 placesDonetsk oblast: 35 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 9 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblastKyiv oblastKirovohrad oblast: 15 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 28 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 43 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 4 placesCherkasy oblast: 1 placeChernihiv oblast: 14 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4–6
  • 9–15
  • 28–43

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

43 places with the surname Гончаров

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 4320%
Donetsk oblast 3516%
Luhansk oblast 3315%
Sumy oblast 2813%
Kirovohrad oblast 157%
Chernihiv oblast 146%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 115%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 94%
Mykolaiv oblast 63%
Kherson oblast 52%
All 16 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Odesa oblast 42%
Poltava oblast 42%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 42%
Vinnytsia oblast 31%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Cherkasy 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

5 of 217 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 4324 of 43

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

Donetsk oblast 3512 of 35

and 23 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 3312 of 33

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

Sumy oblast 2810 of 28

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

Kirovohrad oblast 155 of 15

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

Chernihiv oblast 145 of 14

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 114 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 93 of 9

and 6 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 →

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

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

Poltava 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
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Cherkasy oblast 1All 1 place

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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