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Reva (Рева): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 102 towns and villages of 18 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: 2 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 16 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 8 placesKyiv oblast: 8 placesKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 2 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 13 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 7 placesChernivtsi oblast
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Donetsk oblast

16 places with the surname Рева

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 1616%
Sumy oblast 1313%
Poltava oblast 1111%
Kyiv oblast 88%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 77%
Kharkiv oblast 77%
Chernihiv oblast 77%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 66%
Cherkasy oblast 66%
Kirovohrad oblast 55%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 33%
Ternopil oblast 33%
Vinnytsia oblast 22%
Mykolaiv oblast 22%
Kherson oblast 22%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 22%
Odesa 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

3 of 102 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Donetsk oblast 16All 16 places
Sumy oblast 1310 of 13

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

Poltava oblast 118 of 11

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

Kyiv oblast 86 of 8

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 75 of 7

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

Kharkiv oblast 75 of 7

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

Chernihiv oblast 75 of 7

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 64 of 6

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

Cherkasy oblast 64 of 6

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

Kirovohrad oblast 53 of 5

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

Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Vinnytsia oblast 2All 2 places
Mykolaiv oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

13 entries in 6 regiments

  • Чигиринський
  • Полтавський
  • Канівський
  • Миргородський
  • Переяславський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Грицько РеваЧигиринський regimentp. 2
Игнатъ Реваsotnia БогданенковаКанівський regimentp. 61
Гаврыло Реваsotnia БасанскаяПереяславський regimentp. 233
Иванъ Реваsotnia СенчанскаяМиргородський regimentp. 277
Богданъ Реваsotnia БорковскаяПолтавський regimentp. 291

5 of 13 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.

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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