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Maksymenko (Максименко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 219 towns and villages of 17 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: 16 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 9 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 14 placesDonetsk oblast: 15 placesZhytomyr oblast: 9 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 16 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 20 placesKyiv oblast: 20 placesKirovohrad oblast: 9 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 8 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 20 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 23 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 16 placesChernihiv oblast: 32 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Chernihiv oblast

32 places with the surname Максименко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 3215%
Kharkiv oblast 2311%
Kyiv oblast 209%
Sumy oblast 209%
Vinnytsia oblast 167%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 167%
Cherkasy oblast 167%
Donetsk oblast 157%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 146%
Zhytomyr oblast 94%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 94%
Luhansk oblast 94%
Poltava oblast 84%
Kherson oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 21%
Khmelnytskyi 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

22 of 219 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 3224 of 32

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

Kharkiv oblast 238 of 23

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

Kyiv oblast 207 of 20

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

Sumy oblast 207 of 20

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

Vinnytsia oblast 165 of 16

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 165 of 16

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

Cherkasy oblast 165 of 16

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

Donetsk oblast 155 of 15

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 145 of 14

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

Zhytomyr oblast 93 of 9

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

Kirovohrad oblast 93 of 9

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

Luhansk oblast 93 of 9

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

Poltava oblast 83 of 8

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

88 entries in 15 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Жаданъ МаксименкоЧигиринський regimentp. 4
Тишко Максименкоsotnia МарковаЧеркаський regimentp. 38
Пилипъ МаксименкоКанівський regimentp. 52
Кузьма Максименкоsotnia Максима ГородийскогоКорсунський regimentp. 98
Василь МаксименкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 108

5 of 88 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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