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Popov (Попов): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Counted together with the feminine form Попова.

Recorded in 310 towns and villages of 19 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: 17 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 50 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 11 placesDonetsk oblast: 42 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 27 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 3 placesKirovohrad oblast: 16 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 15 placesOdesa oblast: 7 placesPoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 17 placesTernopil oblast: 2 placesKharkiv oblast: 61 placesKherson oblast: 6 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 9 placesCherkasy oblast: 5 placesChernihiv oblast: 12 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 2–3
  • 4–9
  • 11–16
  • 17–61

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

61 places with the surname Попов

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 6120%
Luhansk oblast 5016%
Donetsk oblast 4214%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 279%
Vinnytsia oblast 175%
Sumy oblast 175%
Kirovohrad oblast 165%
Mykolaiv oblast 155%
Chernihiv oblast 124%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 114%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 93%
Odesa oblast 72%
Kherson oblast 62%
Cherkasy oblast 52%
Zhytomyr oblast 41%
Kyiv oblast 31%
Poltava oblast 31%
Rivne oblast 31%
Ternopil oblast 21%

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 310 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 6124 of 61

and 37 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 5012 of 50

and 38 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 4210 of 42

and 32 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 276 of 27

and 21 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 174 of 17

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

Sumy oblast 174 of 17

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

Kirovohrad oblast 164 of 16

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

Mykolaiv oblast 153 of 15

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

Chernihiv oblast 123 of 12

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 113 of 11

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 93 of 9

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

Odesa oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 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
Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 2All 2 places
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Кропивнянський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Максимъ Поповъsotnia ПиратинскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 250

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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