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Novak (Новак): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 185 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: 11 placesVolyn oblast: 2 placesLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 2 placesDonetsk oblast: 7 placesZhytomyr oblast: 9 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 7 placesKyiv oblast: 5 placesKyiv oblast: 5 placesKirovohrad oblast: 4 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 39 placesSumy oblast: 7 placesTernopil oblast: 8 placesKharkiv oblast: 4 placesKherson oblast: 6 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 23 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 10 placesChernivtsi oblast: 4 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 6–8
  • 9–39

Selected oblast

Rivne oblast

39 places with the surname Новак

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Rivne oblast 3921%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2312%
Vinnytsia oblast 116%
Chernihiv oblast 105%
Zhytomyr oblast 95%
Cherkasy oblast 95%
Ternopil oblast 84%
Donetsk oblast 74%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 74%
Lviv oblast 74%
All 24 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 74%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 63%
Mykolaiv oblast 63%
Kherson oblast 63%
Kyiv oblast 53%
Kirovohrad oblast 42%
Poltava oblast 42%
Kharkiv oblast 42%
Chernivtsi oblast 42%
Volyn oblast 21%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 21%
Luhansk oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Zakarpattia 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

38 of 185 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Rivne oblast 3924 of 39

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 239 of 23

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 114 of 11

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

Chernihiv oblast 104 of 10

and 6 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 →

Cherkasy oblast 93 of 9

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

Ternopil oblast 83 of 8

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

Donetsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Lviv oblast 73 of 7

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

Sumy oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Kherson oblast 63 of 6

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

Kyiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Kirovohrad oblast 43 of 4

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

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

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

Kharkiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Chernivtsi oblast 43 of 4

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

Volyn oblast 2All 2 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

6 entries in 5 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Київський
  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Прилуцький

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Новакъsotnia ИржышчовскаяКанівський regimentp. 73
Иванъ Новакъsotnia ВорсевскаяКиївський regimentp. 213
Иванъ Новакъsotnia РомонскаяМиргородський regimentp. 272
Фесько НовакъПолтавський regimentp. 288
Стецько Новакъsotnia ИченскаяПрилуцький regimentp. 313

5 of 6 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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