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Sych (Сич): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 105 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: 10 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 1 placeDnipropetrovsk oblast: 3 placesDonetsk oblast: 4 placesZhytomyr oblast: 12 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKyiv oblast: 11 placesKirovohrad oblastCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 12 placesMykolaiv oblast: 1 placeOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 1 placeRivne oblast: 4 placesSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 7 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 7 placesCherkasy oblast: 9 placesChernihiv oblast: 10 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1
  • 2–4
  • 7–9
  • 10–12

Selected oblast

Zhytomyr oblast

12 places with the surname Сич

All 12 places →

Coverage: Zhytomyr oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 1211%
Lviv oblast 1211%
Kyiv oblast 1110%
Vinnytsia oblast 1010%
Chernihiv oblast 1010%
Cherkasy oblast 99%
Sumy oblast 88%
Kharkiv oblast 77%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 77%
Donetsk oblast 44%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Rivne oblast 44%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 33%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 22%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 22%
Luhansk oblast 11%
Mykolaiv oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
Poltava 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

23 of 105 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Zhytomyr oblast 12All 12 places
Lviv oblast 129 of 12

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

Kyiv oblast 118 of 11

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

Vinnytsia oblast 107 of 10

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

Chernihiv oblast 107 of 10

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

Cherkasy oblast 96 of 9

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

Sumy oblast 86 of 8

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 →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 75 of 7

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

Donetsk oblast 43 of 4

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

Rivne oblast 43 of 4

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 3All 3 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Luhansk oblast 1All 1 place
Mykolaiv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Poltava oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

4 entries in 3 regiments

  • Кальницький
  • Брацлавський
  • Київський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Яцько Сычъsotnia ЧернавецкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 180
Радько Сычъsotnia ВѣницкаяКальницький regimentp. 193
Васько Сичъsotnia ВѣницкаяКальницький regimentp. 193
Евхимъ Сычъsotnia ВасилковскаяКиївський regimentp. 202

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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