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Romanov (Романов): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Counted together with the feminine form Романова.

Recorded in 110 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: 21 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 10 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 4 placesDonetsk oblast: 15 placesZhytomyr oblast: 3 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 6 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 3 placesKyiv oblast: 3 placesKirovohrad oblast: 5 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 3 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblastRivne oblastSumy oblast: 4 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 15 placesCherkasy oblast: 1 placeChernihiv oblast: 4 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3
  • 4–6
  • 7–21

Selected oblast

Vinnytsia oblast

21 places with the surname Романов

All 21 places →

Coverage: Vinnytsia oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 2119%
Donetsk oblast 1514%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1514%
Luhansk oblast 109%
Kharkiv oblast 76%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 65%
Kirovohrad oblast 55%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 44%
Sumy oblast 44%
Chernihiv oblast 44%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 33%
Kyiv oblast 33%
Lviv oblast 33%
Mykolaiv oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
Odesa oblast 22%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Cherkasy 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

25 of 110 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 21All 21 places
Donetsk oblast 1510 of 15

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 1510 of 15

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

Luhansk oblast 107 of 10

and 3 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 →

Zaporizhzhia 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 →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Sumy oblast 43 of 4

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

Chernihiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Zhytomyr oblast 3All 3 places
Kyiv oblast 3All 3 places
Lviv oblast 3All 3 places
Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Cherkasy oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

1 entry in 1 regiment

  • Канівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Грицько Романовъsotnia ВолынцоваКанівський regimentp. 57

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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