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Usenko (Усенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Recorded in 112 towns and villages of 17 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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Kyiv oblast

13 places with the surname Усенко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 1312%
Chernihiv oblast 1312%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1110%
Cherkasy oblast 1110%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 109%
Sumy oblast 109%
Donetsk oblast 87%
Poltava oblast 76%
Luhansk oblast 65%
Kharkiv oblast 65%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Kirovohrad oblast 44%
Kherson oblast 44%
Mykolaiv oblast 33%
Zhytomyr oblast 22%
Odesa oblast 22%
Vinnytsia oblast 11%
Khmelnytskyi 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

4 of 112 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 13All 13 places
Chernihiv oblast 139 of 13

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 117 of 11

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

Cherkasy oblast 117 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 107 of 10

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

Sumy oblast 107 of 10

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

Donetsk oblast 85 of 8

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

Poltava oblast 75 of 7

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

Luhansk oblast 64 of 6

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

Kharkiv oblast 64 of 6

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

Kirovohrad oblast 43 of 4

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

Kherson oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Zhytomyr oblast 2All 2 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

29 entries in 13 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Педанъ Усенкоsotnia ЖаботинскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 11
Лавринъ Усенкоsotnia ЛазареваЧеркаський regimentp. 39
Жданъ Усенкоsotnia КулагинаКанівський regimentp. 60
Ничипоръ Усенкоsotnia ДемковаКорсунський regimentp. 84
Иванець УсенкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 124

5 of 29 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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