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Kovtun (Ковтун): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 319 towns and villages of 24 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: 29 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 10 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 14 placesDonetsk oblast: 14 placesZhytomyr oblast: 8 placesZakarpattia oblast: 2 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 9 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 30 placesKyiv oblast: 30 placesKirovohrad oblast: 12 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 19 placesRivne oblast: 11 placesSumy oblast: 25 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 25 placesKherson oblast: 10 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 12 placesCherkasy oblast: 40 placesChernihiv oblast: 27 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 5–10
  • 11–19
  • 25–40

Selected oblast

Cherkasy oblast

40 places with the surname Ковтун

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 4013%
Kyiv oblast 309%
Vinnytsia oblast 299%
Chernihiv oblast 278%
Sumy oblast 258%
Kharkiv oblast 258%
Poltava oblast 196%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 144%
Donetsk oblast 144%
Kirovohrad oblast 124%
All 24 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 124%
Rivne oblast 113%
Luhansk oblast 103%
Kherson oblast 103%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 93%
Zhytomyr oblast 83%
Lviv oblast 72%
Mykolaiv oblast 52%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 31%
Zakarpattia oblast 21%
Ternopil oblast 21%
Volyn 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

38 of 319 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Cherkasy oblast 4024 of 40

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

Kyiv oblast 307 of 30

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

Vinnytsia oblast 297 of 29

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

Chernihiv oblast 276 of 27

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

Sumy oblast 256 of 25

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

Kharkiv oblast 256 of 25

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

Poltava oblast 194 of 19

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 143 of 14

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

Donetsk oblast 143 of 14

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

Kirovohrad 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 →

Rivne oblast 113 of 11

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

Luhansk oblast 103 of 10

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

Kherson oblast 103 of 10

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 93 of 9

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

Zhytomyr oblast 83 of 8

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

Lviv oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

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

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

6 entries in 5 regiments

  • Київський
  • Корсунський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Кальницький
  • Переяславський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Пархомъ Ковтунъsotnia ЯсутинаКорсунський regimentp. 99
Тышко КовтунъБілоцерківський regimentp. 111
Романъ Ковтунъsotnia ЖорницкаяКальницький regimentp. 190
Ковтунъsotnia ЯсногородскаяКиївський regimentp. 210
Иванъ Ковтунъsotnia ГелмязовскаяПереяславський regimentp. 226

5 of 6 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.

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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