Родовід Архів
Sign inStart the search €19Account
Menu

Orlovskyi (Орловський): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Orlovsky · Orlowski. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 152 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.

Search another surname
Vinnytsia oblast: 19 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 6 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblast: 23 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 9 placesKirovohrad oblast: 2 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 5 placesMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 3 placesTernopil oblast: 4 placesKharkiv oblast: 9 placesKherson oblast: 6 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 30 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast: 1 place
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 5–6
  • 8–30

Selected oblast

Khmelnytskyi oblast

30 places with the surname Орловський

All 30 places →

Coverage: Khmelnytskyi oblast →

Or choose from the list

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3020%
Zhytomyr oblast 2315%
Vinnytsia oblast 1912%
Kyiv oblast 96%
Kharkiv oblast 96%
Chernihiv oblast 85%
Donetsk oblast 64%
Luhansk oblast 64%
Kherson oblast 64%
Cherkasy oblast 64%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Lviv oblast 53%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 43%
Ternopil oblast 43%
Rivne oblast 32%
Sumy oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Kirovohrad oblast 21%
Mykolaiv oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 21%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Chernivtsi 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

36 of 152 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Khmelnytskyi oblast 3024 of 30

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

Zhytomyr oblast 2312 of 23

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 1910 of 19

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

Kyiv oblast 94 of 9

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

Kharkiv oblast 94 of 9

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

Chernihiv oblast 84 of 8

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

Donetsk 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 →

Kherson oblast 63 of 6

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

Cherkasy oblast 63 of 6

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

Lviv oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia 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 →

Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Sumy oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Kirovohrad oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Chernivtsi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

2 entries in 1 regiment

  • Полтавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Васько ОрловскийПолтавський regimentp. 282
Фесько ОрловскийПолтавський regimentp. 287

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.

Do you know the village your family came from?

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.

Free checkStart the search €19

Free check first, then the search if the books exist. If the catalog shows no register of the parish for 1850–1917, we refund the €19.

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.

How we read the books: Method →
The search €19