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Marchenko (Марченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 510 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: 22 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 34 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 24 placesDonetsk oblast: 29 placesZhytomyr oblast: 24 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 30 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 86 placesKyiv oblast: 86 placesKirovohrad oblast: 20 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 11 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 36 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 36 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 41 placesKherson oblast: 8 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 9 placesCherkasy oblast: 38 placesChernihiv oblast: 49 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 5–22
  • 24–34
  • 36–86

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

86 places with the surname Марченко

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Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 8617%
Chernihiv oblast 4910%
Kharkiv oblast 418%
Cherkasy oblast 387%
Poltava oblast 367%
Sumy oblast 367%
Luhansk oblast 347%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 306%
Donetsk oblast 296%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 245%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 245%
Vinnytsia oblast 224%
Kirovohrad oblast 204%
Mykolaiv oblast 112%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 92%
Kherson oblast 82%
Odesa oblast 51%
Ternopil oblast 31%
Rivne oblast 21%
Volyn oblast 11%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Lviv 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

30 of 510 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 8624 of 86

and 62 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 497 of 49

and 42 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 416 of 41

and 35 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 385 of 38

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

Poltava oblast 365 of 36

and 31 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 365 of 36

and 31 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 345 of 34

and 29 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 304 of 30

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

Donetsk oblast 294 of 29

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 243 of 24

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

Zhytomyr oblast 243 of 24

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

Vinnytsia oblast 223 of 22

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

Kirovohrad oblast 203 of 20

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

Mykolaiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 93 of 9

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

Kherson oblast 83 of 8

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

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

108 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Каленикъ МарченкоЧигиринський regimentp. 2
Иванъ Марченкоsotnia ЗолотоноскаЧеркаський regimentp. 49
Степанъ Марченкоsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 56
Тишко Марченкоsotnia ГоркушинаКорсунський regimentp. 81
Федоръ МарченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 116

5 of 108 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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