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Malyi (Малий): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Counted together with the feminine form Мала.

Recorded in 127 towns and villages of 20 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: 10 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 17 placesDonetsk oblast: 10 placesZhytomyr oblast: 8 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 10 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 5 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKirovohrad oblast: 9 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 4 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblastSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 5 placesKherson oblast: 11 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 10 placesCherkasy oblast: 7 placesChernihiv oblast: 3 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 6–9
  • 10–17

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Dnipropetrovsk oblast

17 places with the surname Малий

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1713%
Kherson oblast 119%
Vinnytsia oblast 108%
Donetsk oblast 108%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 108%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 108%
Kirovohrad oblast 97%
Zhytomyr oblast 86%
Cherkasy oblast 76%
Kyiv oblast 65%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 54%
Kharkiv oblast 54%
Lviv oblast 43%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Ternopil oblast 32%
Chernihiv oblast 32%
Sumy oblast 22%
Chernivtsi oblast 22%
Odesa oblast 11%
Poltava 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

15 of 127 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 17All 17 places
Kherson oblast 116 of 11

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

Vinnytsia oblast 106 of 10

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

Donetsk oblast 106 of 10

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 106 of 10

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 106 of 10

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

Kirovohrad oblast 95 of 9

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

Zhytomyr oblast 85 of 8

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

Cherkasy oblast 74 of 7

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

Kyiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 53 of 5

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

Kharkiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Lviv oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Chernihiv oblast 3All 3 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

34 entries in 13 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Данило Малийsotnia БаклыскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 15
Андрѣй Малыйsotnia ПетрашковаЧеркаський regimentp. 31
Ивашко МалыйБілоцерківський regimentp. 115
Васько Малыйsotnia ВузовскаяУманський regimentp. 138
Матѣй Малыйsotnia ЧачалницкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 178

5 of 34 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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