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Petrov (Петров): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Counted together with the feminine form Петрова.

Recorded in 198 towns and villages of 20 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: 18 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 19 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 6 placesDonetsk oblast: 24 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 23 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 3 placesKirovohrad oblast: 19 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 10 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 12 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 13 placesKherson oblast: 6 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 21 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4–5
  • 6–18
  • 19–24

Selected oblast

Donetsk oblast

24 places with the surname Петров

All 24 places →

Coverage: Donetsk oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 2412%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2312%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2111%
Kirovohrad oblast 1910%
Luhansk oblast 1910%
Vinnytsia oblast 189%
Kharkiv oblast 137%
Sumy oblast 126%
Mykolaiv oblast 105%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 63%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kherson oblast 63%
Odesa oblast 53%
Cherkasy oblast 53%
Chernihiv oblast 53%
Zhytomyr oblast 42%
Kyiv oblast 32%
Ternopil oblast 21%
Lviv oblast 11%
Poltava oblast 11%
Rivne 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

23 of 198 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Donetsk oblast 24All 24 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 239 of 23

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 218 of 21

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

Kirovohrad oblast 197 of 19

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

Luhansk oblast 197 of 19

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

Vinnytsia oblast 187 of 18

and 11 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 →

Sumy oblast 124 of 12

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

Mykolaiv oblast 104 of 10

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

Dnipropetrovsk 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 →

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Zhytomyr oblast 43 of 4

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

Kyiv oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

2 entries in 2 regiments

  • Черкаський
  • Брацлавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Петровъsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 35
Матвѣй Петровъsotnia ГорянкоцкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 165

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.

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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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