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Ovcharenko (Овчаренко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 191 towns and villages of 17 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: 1 placeVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 24 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 13 placesDonetsk oblast: 22 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 5 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 17 placesKyiv oblast: 17 placesKirovohrad oblast: 8 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 10 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 22 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 30 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 1 placeCherkasy oblast: 12 placesChernihiv oblast: 16 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–8
  • 10–16
  • 17–30

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

30 places with the surname Овчаренко

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 3016%
Luhansk oblast 2413%
Donetsk oblast 2212%
Sumy oblast 2212%
Kyiv oblast 179%
Chernihiv oblast 168%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 137%
Cherkasy oblast 126%
Poltava oblast 105%
Kirovohrad oblast 84%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 53%
Mykolaiv oblast 53%
Odesa oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Vinnytsia oblast 11%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Khmelnytskyi 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

1 of 191 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 3024 of 30

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

Luhansk oblast 2410 of 24

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

Donetsk oblast 229 of 22

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

Sumy oblast 229 of 22

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

Kyiv oblast 177 of 17

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

Chernihiv oblast 166 of 16

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 135 of 13

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

Cherkasy oblast 125 of 12

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

Poltava oblast 104 of 10

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

Kirovohrad oblast 83 of 8

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 53 of 5

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

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

3 entries in 3 regiments

  • Білоцерківський
  • Кальницький
  • Київський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ ОвчаренкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 115
Тышко Овчаренкоsotnia ЖорницкаяКальницький regimentp. 190
Микита Овчаренкоsotnia МотовиловскаяКиївський regimentp. 213

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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