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Nahornyi (Нагорний): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Nahorny · Nagorny. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Counted together with the feminine form Нагорна.

Recorded in 202 towns and villages of 21 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: 20 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 6 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 4 placesDonetsk oblast: 11 placesZhytomyr oblast: 19 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 14 placesKyiv oblast: 14 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 2 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 6 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 14 placesTernopil oblast: 4 placesKharkiv oblast: 13 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 25 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 33 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Chernihiv oblast

33 places with the surname Нагорний

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 3316%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2512%
Vinnytsia oblast 2010%
Zhytomyr oblast 199%
Kyiv oblast 147%
Sumy oblast 147%
Kharkiv oblast 136%
Donetsk oblast 115%
Rivne oblast 94%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 63%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 63%
Poltava oblast 63%
Cherkasy oblast 52%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 42%
Ternopil oblast 42%
Odesa oblast 31%
Kherson oblast 31%
Kirovohrad oblast 21%
Lviv oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Volyn 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

27 of 202 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 3324 of 33

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 259 of 25

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 207 of 20

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

Zhytomyr oblast 197 of 19

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

Kyiv oblast 145 of 14

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

Sumy oblast 145 of 14

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

Kharkiv oblast 135 of 13

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

Donetsk oblast 114 of 11

and 7 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 →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 63 of 6

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

Luhansk oblast 63 of 6

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

Poltava oblast 63 of 6

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

Cherkasy oblast 53 of 5

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Ternopil oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

14 entries in 10 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Ніжинський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський
  • Полтавський
  • Прилуцький
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Нагорныйsotnia РосченковаКанівський regimentp. 65
Иванъ Нагорныйsotnia ГарасименковаКорсунський regimentp. 96
Грыцько НагорныйБілоцерківський regimentp. 117
Семенъ Нагорныйsotnia ПогребыскаяКальницький regimentp. 186
Тишко Нагорныйsotnia НагорногоКиївський regimentp. 201

5 of 14 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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