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Klymenko (Клименко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 452 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: 7 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 22 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 25 placesDonetsk oblast: 30 placesZhytomyr oblast: 25 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 24 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 59 placesKyiv oblast: 59 placesKirovohrad oblast: 19 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 8 placesOdesa oblast: 6 placesPoltava oblast: 25 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 31 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 49 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 4 placesCherkasy oblast: 48 placesChernihiv oblast: 58 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 7–22
  • 24–30
  • 31–59

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

59 places with the surname Клименко

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Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 5913%
Chernihiv oblast 5813%
Kharkiv oblast 4911%
Cherkasy oblast 4811%
Sumy oblast 317%
Donetsk oblast 307%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 256%
Zhytomyr oblast 256%
Poltava oblast 256%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 245%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 225%
Kirovohrad oblast 194%
Mykolaiv oblast 82%
Kherson oblast 82%
Vinnytsia oblast 72%
Odesa oblast 61%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 41%
Lviv oblast 31%
Ternopil 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

14 of 452 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 5924 of 59

and 35 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 5810 of 58

and 48 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 498 of 49

and 41 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 488 of 48

and 40 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 315 of 31

and 26 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 305 of 30

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 254 of 25

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 254 of 25

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 254 of 25

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 244 of 24

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 223 of 22

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

Kirovohrad oblast 193 of 19

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Mykolaiv oblast 83 of 8

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

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

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

Vinnytsia oblast 73 of 7

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

Odesa oblast 63 of 6

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 43 of 4

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

Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

101 entries in 14 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Хведоръ Клименкоsotnia БужинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 7
Матюша Клименкоsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 33
Евтухъ Клименкоsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 56
Демко КлименкоКорсунський regimentp. 78
Павло КлименкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 109

5 of 101 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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