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Kovalov (Ковальов): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Counted together with the feminine form Ковальова.

Recorded in 269 towns and villages of 18 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: 12 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 45 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 17 placesDonetsk oblast: 33 placesZhytomyr oblast: 5 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 21 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKirovohrad oblast: 11 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblast: 5 placesSumy oblast: 30 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 33 placesKherson oblast: 11 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 12 placesCherkasy oblast: 3 placesChernihiv oblast: 18 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 2–4
  • 5–11
  • 12–18
  • 21–45

Selected oblast

Luhansk oblast

45 places with the surname Ковальов

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 4517%
Donetsk oblast 3312%
Kharkiv oblast 3312%
Sumy oblast 3011%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 218%
Chernihiv oblast 187%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 176%
Vinnytsia oblast 124%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 124%
Kirovohrad oblast 114%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kherson oblast 114%
Zhytomyr oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 52%
Rivne oblast 52%
Kyiv oblast 41%
Cherkasy oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 21%
Poltava oblast 21%

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

15 of 269 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Luhansk oblast 4524 of 45

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

Donetsk oblast 339 of 33

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

Kharkiv oblast 339 of 33

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

Sumy oblast 308 of 30

and 22 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 216 of 21

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

Chernihiv oblast 185 of 18

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 175 of 17

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

Vinnytsia oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad 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 →

Zhytomyr oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Kyiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Cherkasy oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places

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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