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Khyzhniak (Хижняк): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Khizhniak · Chyżniak. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 104 towns and villages of 14 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 oblastVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 7 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 12 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 6 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 10 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 8 placesKherson oblast: 4 placesKhmelnytskyi oblastCherkasy oblast: 16 placesChernihiv oblast: 10 placesChernivtsi oblast
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  • 4–6
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  • 10–16

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Cherkasy oblast

16 places with the surname Хижняк

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 1615%
Kyiv oblast 1514%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1212%
Sumy oblast 1010%
Chernihiv oblast 1010%
Kharkiv oblast 88%
Donetsk oblast 77%
Poltava oblast 66%
Kirovohrad oblast 55%
Luhansk oblast 44%
All 14 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kherson oblast 44%
Mykolaiv oblast 33%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 22%
Odesa 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

1 of 104 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Cherkasy oblast 16All 16 places
Kyiv oblast 1511 of 15

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 129 of 12

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

Sumy oblast 107 of 10

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

Chernihiv oblast 107 of 10

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

Kharkiv oblast 86 of 8

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

Donetsk oblast 75 of 7

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

Poltava oblast 64 of 6

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

Kirovohrad oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

12 entries in 9 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Полтавський
  • Корсунський
  • Уманський
  • Київський
  • Переяславський
  • Миргородський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Левко Хижнякъsotnia Веремиевская за ДнепраЧигиринський regimentp. 18
Дмитро Хижнякъsotnia ГарасименковаКорсунський regimentp. 94
Дацько ХижнякъУманський regimentp. 143
Данило Хижнякъsotnia ОбуховскаяКиївський regimentp. 207
Васько Хижнякъsotnia БыковскаяПереяславський regimentp. 229

5 of 12 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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