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Kushnir (Кушнір): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 342 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: 88 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 1 placeDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 1 placeZhytomyr oblast: 17 placesZakarpattia oblast: 5 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKyiv oblast: 15 placesKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 19 placesMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 8 placesPoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblast: 13 placesSumy oblast: 5 placesTernopil oblast: 26 placesKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 85 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast: 11 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–3
  • 4–5
  • 7–13
  • 15–88

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Vinnytsia oblast

88 places with the surname Кушнір

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 8826%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 8525%
Ternopil oblast 268%
Lviv oblast 196%
Zhytomyr oblast 175%
Kyiv oblast 154%
Rivne oblast 134%
Chernivtsi oblast 113%
Cherkasy oblast 93%
Odesa oblast 82%
All 24 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 82%
Kharkiv oblast 72%
Zakarpattia oblast 51%
Kirovohrad oblast 51%
Sumy oblast 51%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 41%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 41%
Mykolaiv oblast 41%
Poltava oblast 31%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Donetsk oblast 11%
Luhansk oblast 11%
Kherson 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

121 of 342 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 8824 of 88

and 64 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 8519 of 85

and 66 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 266 of 26

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 194 of 19

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

Zhytomyr oblast 173 of 17

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 153 of 15

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

Rivne oblast 133 of 13

and 10 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernivtsi oblast 113 of 11

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

Cherkasy oblast 93 of 9

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

Odesa oblast 83 of 8

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

Chernihiv oblast 83 of 8

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

Kharkiv oblast 73 of 7

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

Zakarpattia oblast 53 of 5

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

Kirovohrad oblast 53 of 5

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

Sumy oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

and 1 place 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 →

Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Donetsk oblast 1All 1 place
Luhansk oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

23 entries in 6 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Брацлавський
  • Корсунський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Андрушко Кушнѣръsotnia Максима ГородийскогоКорсунський regimentp. 97
Грышко КушнѣръБілоцерківський regimentp. 113
Калеиикъ Кушнѣръsotnia БанковскаяУманський regimentp. 134
Михайло Кушнѣръsotnia РайгородскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 159
Василь Кушнѣръsotnia КраснопольскаяМиргородський regimentp. 263

5 of 23 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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