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Kryvyi (Кривий): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Krivy · Krywyi. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Counted together with the feminine form Крива.

Recorded in 100 towns and villages of 15 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: 18 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 3 placesDonetsk oblast: 5 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 1 placeIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblastKyiv oblastKirovohrad oblast: 8 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 10 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblastSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 16 placesKharkiv oblast: 1 placeKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 15 placesCherkasy oblast: 7 placesChernihiv oblast: 2 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2–3
  • 5–8
  • 10–18

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Vinnytsia oblast

18 places with the surname Кривий

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 1818%
Ternopil oblast 1616%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1515%
Lviv oblast 1010%
Kirovohrad oblast 88%
Cherkasy oblast 77%
Zhytomyr oblast 66%
Donetsk oblast 55%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 33%
Mykolaiv oblast 33%
All 15 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Odesa oblast 33%
Chernivtsi oblast 22%
Chernihiv oblast 22%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 11%
Kharkiv 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

30 of 100 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 18All 18 places
Ternopil oblast 1612 of 16

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 1512 of 15

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

Lviv oblast 108 of 10

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

Kirovohrad oblast 86 of 8

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

Cherkasy oblast 75 of 7

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

Zhytomyr oblast 64 of 6

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

Donetsk oblast 54 of 5

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Chernihiv oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1All 1 place
Kharkiv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

14 entries in 9 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Київський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Брацлавський
  • Прилуцький
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Степанъ КривыйКанівський regimentp. 54
Фесько Кривыйsotnia ИмглѣевскаяКорсунський regimentp. 97
Иванъ Кривыйsotnia ИваньгородскаяУманський regimentp. 135
Корнѣй Кривыйsotnia ГорянкоцкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 165
Гордий Кривыйsotnia ПреварскаяКиївський regimentp. 208

5 of 14 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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