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Kostenko (Костенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 365 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: 14 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 19 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 15 placesDonetsk oblast: 21 placesZhytomyr oblast: 13 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 25 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 48 placesKyiv oblast: 48 placesKirovohrad oblast: 21 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 11 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 22 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 20 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 42 placesKherson oblast: 11 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 44 placesChernihiv oblast: 25 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 6–14
  • 15–21
  • 22–48

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

48 places with the surname Костенко

All 48 places →

Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 4813%
Cherkasy oblast 4412%
Kharkiv oblast 4212%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 257%
Chernihiv oblast 257%
Poltava oblast 226%
Donetsk oblast 216%
Kirovohrad oblast 216%
Sumy oblast 205%
Luhansk oblast 195%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 154%
Vinnytsia oblast 144%
Zhytomyr oblast 134%
Mykolaiv oblast 113%
Kherson oblast 113%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 62%
Odesa oblast 31%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Lviv oblast 11%
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

20 of 365 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 4824 of 48

and 24 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 449 of 44

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

Kharkiv oblast 429 of 42

and 33 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 255 of 25

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

Chernihiv oblast 255 of 25

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

Poltava oblast 224 of 22

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

Donetsk oblast 214 of 21

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 214 of 21

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 204 of 20

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

Luhansk oblast 194 of 19

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 153 of 15

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 143 of 14

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

Zhytomyr oblast 133 of 13

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

Mykolaiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Kherson oblast 113 of 11

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 63 of 6

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

Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

64 entries in 13 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Дацько КостенкоЧигиринський regimentp. 1
Андрей КостенкоЧеркаський regimentp. 28
Максимъ КостенкоКанівський regimentp. 53
Андрушко КостенкоКорсунський regimentp. 80
Грыцько КостенкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 115

5 of 64 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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