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Orel (Орел): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 122 towns and villages of 18 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: 13 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 8 placesDonetsk oblast: 3 placesZhytomyr oblast: 5 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 12 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 11 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 2 placesSumy oblast: 6 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 8 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 10 placesChernihiv oblast: 10 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 2
  • 3–5
  • 6–8
  • 10–13

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

13 places with the surname Орел

All 13 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 1311%
Kyiv oblast 1311%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 1210%
Kirovohrad oblast 119%
Cherkasy oblast 108%
Chernihiv oblast 108%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 87%
Kharkiv oblast 87%
Sumy oblast 65%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 65%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 54%
Poltava oblast 43%
Donetsk oblast 32%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Odesa oblast 32%
Kherson oblast 32%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Rivne oblast 22%

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

11 of 122 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 13All 13 places
Kyiv oblast 138 of 13

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 127 of 12

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

Kirovohrad oblast 117 of 11

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

Cherkasy oblast 106 of 10

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

Chernihiv oblast 106 of 10

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 85 of 8

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

Kharkiv oblast 85 of 8

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

Sumy oblast 63 of 6

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 63 of 6

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

Zhytomyr oblast 53 of 5

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

Poltava oblast 43 of 4

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

Donetsk oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
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Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Білоцерківський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Федоръ ОрелъБілоцерківський regimentp. 126

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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Give us the surname and the village; we reply by email whether the parish books survive. It is free. Next is the search: a letter on where your family’s books are kept.

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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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