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Shcherbyna (Щербина): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Shcherbina · Szczerbyna. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 226 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: 6 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 24 placesDonetsk oblast: 17 placesZhytomyr oblast: 6 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 18 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 23 placesKyiv oblast: 23 placesKirovohrad oblast: 28 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 9 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 12 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 12 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 15 placesKherson oblast: 14 placesKhmelnytskyi oblastCherkasy oblast: 18 placesChernihiv oblast: 16 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–4
  • 6–12
  • 14–17
  • 18–28

Selected oblast

Kirovohrad oblast

28 places with the surname Щербина

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 2812%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 2411%
Kyiv oblast 2310%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 188%
Cherkasy oblast 188%
Donetsk oblast 178%
Chernihiv oblast 167%
Kharkiv oblast 157%
Kherson oblast 146%
Poltava oblast 125%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 125%
Mykolaiv oblast 94%
Vinnytsia oblast 63%
Zhytomyr oblast 63%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 42%
Luhansk oblast 21%
Odesa oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

9 of 226 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kirovohrad oblast 2824 of 28

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 248 of 24

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

Kyiv oblast 238 of 23

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 186 of 18

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

Cherkasy oblast 186 of 18

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

Donetsk oblast 176 of 17

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 165 of 16

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 155 of 15

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

Kherson oblast 144 of 14

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

Poltava oblast 124 of 12

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

Sumy oblast 124 of 12

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

Mykolaiv oblast 93 of 9

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

Vinnytsia oblast 63 of 6

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

Zhytomyr oblast 63 of 6

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

80 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Пилипъ ШчербинаЧигиринський regimentp. 1
Иванъ ШчербинаЧеркаський regimentp. 29
Пванъ Шчербинаsotnia ГунинаКанівський regimentp. 64
Иванъ ЩербинаКорсунський regimentp. 79
Процыкъ ЩербинаБілоцерківський regimentp. 113

5 of 80 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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