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Kucher (Кучер): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 253 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: 57 placesVolyn oblast: 2 placesLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 5 placesZhytomyr oblast: 24 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKirovohrad oblast: 3 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 5 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblast: 10 placesSumy oblast: 7 placesTernopil oblast: 18 placesKharkiv oblast: 4 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 38 placesCherkasy oblast: 23 placesChernihiv oblast: 2 placesChernivtsi oblast: 3 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 2
  • 3–4
  • 5–10
  • 18–57

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

57 places with the surname Кучер

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 5723%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3815%
Zhytomyr oblast 249%
Kyiv oblast 249%
Cherkasy oblast 239%
Ternopil oblast 187%
Rivne oblast 104%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73%
Sumy oblast 73%
Donetsk oblast 52%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 52%
Lviv oblast 52%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 42%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Kharkiv oblast 42%
Kirovohrad oblast 31%
Luhansk oblast 31%
Poltava oblast 31%
Chernivtsi oblast 31%
Volyn oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Chernihiv 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

71 of 253 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 5724 of 57

and 33 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3812 of 38

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

Zhytomyr oblast 247 of 24

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 247 of 24

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 237 of 23

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

Ternopil oblast 185 of 18

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

Rivne oblast 103 of 10

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Sumy oblast 73 of 7

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

Donetsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 53 of 5

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

Lviv oblast 53 of 5

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Kharkiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Kirovohrad oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Chernivtsi oblast 3All 3 places
Volyn oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Chernihiv oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Брацлавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Штепа Кучеръsotnia ЧернавецкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 179

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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