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Kovalenko (Коваленко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 891 towns and villages of 20 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: 40 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 44 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 46 placesDonetsk oblast: 51 placesZhytomyr oblast: 15 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 42 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 142 placesKyiv oblast: 142 placesKirovohrad oblast: 59 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 27 placesOdesa oblast: 10 placesPoltava oblast: 33 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 62 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 83 placesKherson oblast: 29 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 11 placesCherkasy oblast: 80 placesChernihiv oblast: 106 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Kyiv oblast

142 places with the surname Коваленко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 14216%
Chernihiv oblast 10612%
Kharkiv oblast 839%
Cherkasy oblast 809%
Sumy oblast 627%
Kirovohrad oblast 597%
Donetsk oblast 516%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 465%
Luhansk oblast 445%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 425%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 404%
Poltava oblast 334%
Kherson oblast 293%
Mykolaiv oblast 273%
Zhytomyr oblast 152%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 111%
Odesa oblast 101%
Rivne oblast 91%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk 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

50 of 891 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 14224 of 142

and 118 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 1069 of 106

and 97 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 837 of 83

and 76 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 807 of 80

and 73 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 625 of 62

and 57 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 595 of 59

and 54 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 514 of 51

and 47 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 464 of 46

and 42 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 443 of 44

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 423 of 42

and 39 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 403 of 40

and 37 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 333 of 33

and 30 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 293 of 29

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

Mykolaiv oblast 273 of 27

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

Zhytomyr oblast 153 of 15

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 113 of 11

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

Odesa oblast 103 of 10

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

Rivne oblast 93 of 9

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

Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

124 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Кондратъ Коваленкоsotnia БужинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 7
Иванъ Коваленкоsotnia МарковаЧеркаський regimentp. 36
Васько КоваленкоКанівський regimentp. 53
Грннець Коваленкоsotnia ИвахниченковаКорсунський regimentp. 86
Степанъ КоваленкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 114

5 of 124 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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