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Melnyk (Мельник): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 1 445 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: 291 placesVolyn oblast: 6 placesLuhansk oblast: 8 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 10 placesDonetsk oblast: 21 placesZhytomyr oblast: 133 placesZakarpattia oblast: 8 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 11 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 94 placesKyiv oblast: 78 placesKyiv oblast: 78 placesKirovohrad oblast: 25 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 100 placesMykolaiv oblast: 15 placesOdesa oblast: 7 placesPoltava oblast: 16 placesRivne oblast: 91 placesSumy oblast: 20 placesTernopil oblast: 87 placesKharkiv oblast: 26 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 277 placesCherkasy oblast: 63 placesChernihiv oblast: 40 placesChernivtsi oblast: 13 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 5–10
  • 11–21
  • 25–87
  • 91–291

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

291 places with the surname Мельник

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 29120%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 27719%
Zhytomyr oblast 1339%
Lviv oblast 1007%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 947%
Rivne oblast 916%
Ternopil oblast 876%
Kyiv oblast 785%
Cherkasy oblast 634%
Chernihiv oblast 403%
All 24 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 262%
Kirovohrad oblast 252%
Donetsk oblast 211%
Sumy oblast 201%
Poltava oblast 161%
Mykolaiv oblast 151%
Chernivtsi oblast 131%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 111%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 101%
Zakarpattia oblast 81%
Luhansk oblast 81%
Odesa oblast 71%
Volyn oblast 61%
Kherson oblast 51%

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

455 of 1 445 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 29124 of 291

and 267 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 27715 of 277

and 262 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 1337 of 133

and 126 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 1005 of 100

and 95 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 945 of 94

and 89 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Rivne oblast 915 of 91

and 86 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 874 of 87

and 83 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 784 of 78

and 74 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 633 of 63

and 60 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 403 of 40

and 37 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 263 of 26

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

Kirovohrad oblast 253 of 25

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

Donetsk oblast 213 of 21

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

Sumy oblast 203 of 20

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

Poltava oblast 163 of 16

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

Mykolaiv oblast 153 of 15

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

Chernivtsi oblast 133 of 13

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 113 of 11

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 103 of 10

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zakarpattia oblast 83 of 8

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

Luhansk oblast 83 of 8

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

Odesa oblast 73 of 7

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

Volyn oblast 63 of 6

and 3 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 →

Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

38 entries in 10 regiments

  • Брацлавський
  • Уманський
  • Миргородський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Полтавський
  • Корсунський
  • Кальницький
  • Кропивнянський
  • Канівський
  • Київський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Ясько Мельникъsotnia МежырецкаяКанівський regimentp. 71
Таврило Мельникъsotnia ДемковаКорсунський regimentp. 85
Фесько МелникъБілоцерківський regimentp. 121
Остапъ Мелникъsotnia ИванскаяУманський regimentp. 146
Олексѣй МелникъБрацлавський regimentp. 156

5 of 38 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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