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Hrytsenko (Гриценко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Hritsenko · Gritsenko · Hrycenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 201 towns and villages of 21 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: 2 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 9 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 11 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 22 placesKyiv oblast: 22 placesKirovohrad oblast: 12 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 20 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 22 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 15 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 20 placesChernihiv oblast: 32 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 5–12
  • 15–32

Selected oblast

Chernihiv oblast

32 places with the surname Гриценко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 3216%
Kyiv oblast 2211%
Sumy oblast 2211%
Poltava oblast 2010%
Cherkasy oblast 2010%
Kharkiv oblast 157%
Kirovohrad oblast 126%
Donetsk oblast 115%
Zhytomyr oblast 115%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 94%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 52%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 31%
Vinnytsia oblast 21%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 21%
Ternopil oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 21%
Zakarpattia 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

8 of 201 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 3224 of 32

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

Kyiv oblast 228 of 22

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

Sumy oblast 228 of 22

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

Poltava oblast 207 of 20

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

Cherkasy oblast 207 of 20

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

Kharkiv oblast 155 of 15

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

Kirovohrad oblast 124 of 12

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

Donetsk oblast 114 of 11

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

Zhytomyr oblast 114 of 11

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 93 of 9

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

Luhansk oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Vinnytsia oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

151 entries in 16 regiments

  • Корсунський
  • Прилуцький
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Чигиринський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський
  • Переяславський
  • Канівський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Ніжинський
  • Черкаський
  • Чернігівський
  • Брацлавський
  • Київський
  • Кальницький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Лесько ГриценкоЧигиринський regimentp. 2
Кирикъ Гриценкоsotnia ШубцеваЧеркаський regimentp. 30
Миколай ГриценкоКанівський regimentp. 54
Богданъ Гриценкоsotnia ГоркушинаКорсунський regimentp. 81
Якимъ ГриценкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 107

5 of 151 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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