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Horobets (Горобець): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Gorobets · Horobec. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 232 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: 35 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 7 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 8 placesDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 9 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 27 placesKyiv oblast: 27 placesKirovohrad oblast: 14 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 11 placesTernopil oblast: 15 placesKharkiv oblast: 13 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 26 placesCherkasy oblast: 28 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–7
  • 8–13
  • 14–35

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

35 places with the surname Горобець

All 35 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 3515%
Cherkasy oblast 2812%
Kyiv oblast 2712%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2611%
Ternopil oblast 156%
Kirovohrad oblast 146%
Kharkiv oblast 136%
Poltava oblast 115%
Sumy oblast 115%
Zhytomyr oblast 94%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 83%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 73%
Luhansk oblast 73%
Chernihiv oblast 52%
Odesa oblast 42%
Donetsk oblast 31%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 21%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Lviv oblast 11%
Kherson 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

36 of 232 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 3524 of 35

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

Cherkasy oblast 289 of 28

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

Kyiv oblast 279 of 27

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 268 of 26

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

Ternopil oblast 155 of 15

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

Kirovohrad oblast 144 of 14

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

Kharkiv oblast 134 of 13

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

Poltava oblast 113 of 11

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

Sumy oblast 113 of 11

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

Zhytomyr oblast 93 of 9

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

Dnipropetrovsk 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 →

Luhansk oblast 73 of 7

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

Chernihiv 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 →

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place

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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