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Levchenko (Левченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 419 towns and villages of 19 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: 22 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 26 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 23 placesDonetsk oblast: 26 placesZhytomyr oblast: 24 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 28 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 37 placesKyiv oblast: 37 placesKirovohrad oblast: 27 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 12 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 37 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 25 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 31 placesKherson oblast: 7 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 5 placesCherkasy oblast: 31 placesChernihiv oblast: 45 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Selected oblast

Chernihiv oblast

45 places with the surname Левченко

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Coverage: Chernihiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 4511%
Kyiv oblast 379%
Poltava oblast 379%
Kharkiv oblast 317%
Cherkasy oblast 317%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 287%
Kirovohrad oblast 276%
Donetsk oblast 266%
Luhansk oblast 266%
Sumy oblast 256%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 246%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 235%
Vinnytsia oblast 225%
Mykolaiv oblast 123%
Rivne oblast 92%
Kherson oblast 72%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 51%
Odesa oblast 21%
Ternopil 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

25 of 419 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 4524 of 45

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

Kyiv oblast 377 of 37

and 30 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 377 of 37

and 30 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 315 of 31

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

Cherkasy oblast 315 of 31

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 285 of 28

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

Kirovohrad oblast 275 of 27

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

Donetsk oblast 264 of 26

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

Luhansk oblast 264 of 26

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

Sumy oblast 254 of 25

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

Zhytomyr oblast 244 of 24

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 234 of 23

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

Vinnytsia oblast 224 of 22

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

Mykolaiv oblast 123 of 12

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

Rivne oblast 93 of 9

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

Kherson oblast 73 of 7

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 53 of 5

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

Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

122 entries in 16 regiments

  • Корсунський
  • Канівський
  • Чигиринський
  • Переяславський
  • Прилуцький
  • Білоцерківський
  • Миргородський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Полтавський
  • Уманський
  • Черкаський
  • Ніжинський
  • Чернігівський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський
  • Брацлавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Хома ЛевченкоЧигиринський regimentp. 2
Олешко Левченкоsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 33
Иванъ ЛевченкоКанівський regimentp. 52
Жаданъ ЛевченкоКорсунський regimentp. 78
Грыцько ЛевченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 112

5 of 122 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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