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Shapoval (Шаповал): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 259 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: 23 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 7 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 24 placesDonetsk oblast: 2 placesZhytomyr oblast: 4 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 17 placesKyiv oblast: 17 placesKirovohrad oblast: 30 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 4 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 24 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 21 placesTernopil oblast: 3 placesKharkiv oblast: 36 placesKherson oblast: 7 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 16 placesCherkasy oblast: 24 placesChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4–7
  • 8–23
  • 24–36

Selected oblast

Kharkiv oblast

36 places with the surname Шаповал

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Coverage: Kharkiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kharkiv oblast 3614%
Kirovohrad oblast 3012%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 249%
Poltava oblast 249%
Cherkasy oblast 249%
Vinnytsia oblast 239%
Sumy oblast 218%
Kyiv oblast 177%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 166%
Chernihiv oblast 83%
All 19 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 73%
Luhansk oblast 73%
Kherson oblast 73%
Zhytomyr oblast 42%
Mykolaiv oblast 42%
Ternopil oblast 31%
Donetsk oblast 21%
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

26 of 259 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Kharkiv oblast 3624 of 36

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

Kirovohrad oblast 309 of 30

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 247 of 24

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 247 of 24

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 247 of 24

and 17 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 237 of 23

and 16 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 216 of 21

and 15 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 175 of 17

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 164 of 16

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

Chernihiv oblast 83 of 8

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 73 of 7

and 4 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Ternopil oblast 3All 3 places
Donetsk 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

12 entries in 8 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Переяславський
  • Чигиринський
  • Черкаський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Уманський
  • Кальницький
  • Полтавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Тимошъ Шаповалъsotnia ОмелницкаяЧигиринський regimentp. 24
Яцько ШаповалъЧеркаський regimentp. 29
Онпсько ШаповалъБілоцерківський regimentp. 119
Васько Шаповалъsotnia ДабанскаяУманський regimentp. 139
Дмитро Шаповалъsotnia ВѣницкаяКальницький regimentp. 193

5 of 12 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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