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Huk (Гук): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 129 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: 17 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblast: 2 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 10 placesKyiv oblast: 10 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 21 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblast: 5 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 16 placesKharkiv oblast: 8 placesKherson oblast: 4 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 12 placesCherkasy oblast: 2 placesChernihiv oblast: 10 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2–3
  • 4–8
  • 10–21

Selected oblast

Lviv oblast

21 places with the surname Гук

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Coverage: Lviv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Lviv oblast 2116%
Vinnytsia oblast 1713%
Ternopil oblast 1612%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 129%
Kyiv oblast 108%
Chernihiv oblast 108%
Kharkiv oblast 86%
Rivne oblast 54%
Donetsk oblast 43%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 43%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kherson oblast 43%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 32%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 22%
Zakarpattia oblast 22%
Kirovohrad oblast 22%
Poltava oblast 22%
Sumy oblast 22%
Cherkasy oblast 22%

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

41 of 129 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Lviv oblast 21All 21 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1710 of 17

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

Ternopil oblast 169 of 16

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 127 of 12

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

Kyiv oblast 106 of 10

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

Chernihiv oblast 106 of 10

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

Kharkiv oblast 84 of 8

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

Rivne oblast 53 of 5

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Kherson oblast 43 of 4

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Cherkasy oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

5 entries in 3 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Черкаський
  • Уманський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Микита Гукъsotnia МарковаЧеркаський regimentp. 38
Семенъ ГукъУманський regimentp. 133
Гукъsotnia КраснопольскаяМиргородський regimentp. 264
Мисько Гукъsotnia ЛувенскаяМиргородський regimentp. 269
Грицько Гукъsotnia РомонскаяМиргородський regimentp. 272

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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