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Horban (Горбань): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 115 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: 3 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 9 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 11 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKirovohrad oblast: 4 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 5 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 17 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 5 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 9 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 4 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 11 placesChernivtsi oblast
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  • 5–6
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Poltava oblast

17 places with the surname Горбань

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 1715%
Donetsk oblast 1110%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1110%
Chernihiv oblast 1110%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 98%
Kyiv oblast 98%
Kharkiv oblast 98%
Cherkasy oblast 65%
Lviv oblast 54%
Sumy oblast 54%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 43%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 43%
Vinnytsia oblast 33%
Ternopil oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Volyn oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Odesa 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

12 of 115 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Poltava oblast 17All 17 places
Donetsk oblast 117 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 117 of 11

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

Chernihiv oblast 117 of 11

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 96 of 9

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

Kyiv oblast 96 of 9

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

Kharkiv oblast 96 of 9

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

Cherkasy oblast 64 of 6

and 2 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 →

Sumy oblast 53 of 5

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

Kirovohrad 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
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 4 regiments

  • Полтавський
  • Миргородський
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Тимошъ Горбаньsotnia АндросоваМиргородський regimentp. 261
Олекса Горбаньsotnia ГлинскаяМиргородський regimentp. 279
Тимко Горбаньsotnia БалаклыйскаяПолтавський regimentp. 293
Иванъ Горбаньsotnia ДѣвицкаяНіжинський regimentp. 324
Федоръ ГорбаньЧернігівський regimentp. 332

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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