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Popovych (Попович): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Popovich · Popowycz. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 257 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.

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Vinnytsia oblast: 14 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 3 placesDonetsk oblast: 5 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblast: 42 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 12 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 28 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 8 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 16 placesMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 4 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 6 placesTernopil oblast: 18 placesKharkiv oblast: 3 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 17 placesCherkasy oblast: 16 placesChernihiv oblast: 11 placesChernivtsi oblast: 18 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 5–9
  • 11–14
  • 16–42

Selected oblast

Zakarpattia oblast

42 places with the surname Попович

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zakarpattia oblast 4216%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2811%
Ternopil oblast 187%
Chernivtsi oblast 187%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 177%
Lviv oblast 166%
Cherkasy oblast 166%
Vinnytsia oblast 145%
Kyiv oblast 135%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 125%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 114%
Rivne oblast 94%
Kirovohrad oblast 83%
Sumy oblast 62%
Donetsk oblast 52%
Mykolaiv oblast 52%
Kherson oblast 52%
Poltava oblast 42%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 31%
Luhansk oblast 31%
Kharkiv oblast 31%
Odesa 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

50 of 257 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Zakarpattia oblast 4224 of 42

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 288 of 28

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 185 of 18

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

Chernivtsi oblast 185 of 18

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 175 of 17

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

Lviv oblast 164 of 16

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

Cherkasy oblast 164 of 16

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

Vinnytsia oblast 144 of 14

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

Kyiv oblast 134 of 13

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 123 of 12

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

Chernihiv oblast 113 of 11

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

Rivne oblast 93 of 9

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 →

Sumy oblast 63 of 6

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

Donetsk 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 →

Kherson 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 →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Kharkiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

48 entries in 16 regiments

  • Корсунський
  • Канівський
  • Київський
  • Чернігівський
  • Черкаський
  • Переяславський
  • Миргородський
  • Чигиринський
  • Уманський
  • Кальницький
  • Прилуцький
  • Білоцерківський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Полтавський
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Сенько Поповичъsotnia МедвѣдовскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 10
Остапъ ПоповичъЧеркаський regimentp. 28
Хома ПоповичъКанівський regimentp. 53
Ярема Поповичъsotnia КурышковаКорсунський regimentp. 90
Андрѣй ПоповичъБілоцерківський regimentp. 117

5 of 48 entries shown. 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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