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Kovalskyi (Ковальський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Kovalsky · Kowalski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 285 towns and villages of 22 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: 52 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 12 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 10 placesZhytomyr oblast: 31 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 10 placesKyiv oblast: 12 placesKyiv oblast: 12 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 20 placesMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 5 placesSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 25 placesKharkiv oblast: 6 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 63 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 2 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–2
  • 4–5
  • 6–10
  • 12–63

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

63 places with the surname Ковальський

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 6322%
Vinnytsia oblast 5218%
Zhytomyr oblast 3111%
Ternopil oblast 259%
Lviv oblast 207%
Kyiv oblast 124%
Luhansk oblast 124%
Donetsk oblast 104%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 104%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 62%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 62%
Kharkiv oblast 62%
Mykolaiv oblast 52%
Rivne oblast 52%
Kherson oblast 52%
Cherkasy oblast 52%
Odesa oblast 41%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 21%
Sumy oblast 21%
Chernihiv oblast 21%
Poltava oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

94 of 285 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 6324 of 63

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

Vinnytsia oblast 5214 of 52

and 38 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 318 of 31

and 23 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 257 of 25

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

Lviv oblast 205 of 20

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

Kyiv oblast 123 of 12

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

Luhansk oblast 123 of 12

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

Donetsk oblast 103 of 10

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 103 of 10

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 63 of 6

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

Kirovohrad oblast 63 of 6

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

Kharkiv oblast 63 of 6

and 3 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 →

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Cherkasy oblast 53 of 5

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

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Chernihiv oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

7 entries in 7 regiments

  • Черкаський
  • Корсунський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кальницький
  • Кропивнянський
  • Полтавський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Ясько КовальскийЧеркаський regimentp. 28
Максимъ Ковальскийsotnia Маркова БажаненковаКорсунський regimentp. 87
Лавринъ Ковальскийsotnia БраиловскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 164
Степанъ Ковальскийsotnia ВѣницкаяКальницький regimentp. 195
Мпхайло Ковальскийsotnia ДемскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 241

5 of 7 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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