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Voitenko (Войтенко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 139 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: 23 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 9 placesZhytomyr oblast: 14 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKirovohrad oblast: 7 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 9 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 8 placesTernopil oblastKharkiv oblast: 10 placesKherson oblastKhmelnytskyi oblast: 3 placesCherkasy oblast: 6 placesChernihiv oblast: 6 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 3–5
  • 6–8
  • 9–24

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Kyiv oblast

24 places with the surname Войтенко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 2417%
Vinnytsia oblast 2317%
Zhytomyr oblast 1410%
Kharkiv oblast 107%
Donetsk oblast 96%
Poltava oblast 96%
Sumy oblast 86%
Kirovohrad oblast 75%
Cherkasy oblast 64%
Chernihiv oblast 64%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Odesa oblast 54%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Mykolaiv oblast 32%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 32%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 21%
Dnipropetrovsk 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

22 of 139 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 24All 24 places
Vinnytsia oblast 2313 of 23

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

Zhytomyr oblast 148 of 14

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

Kharkiv oblast 105 of 10

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

Donetsk oblast 95 of 9

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

Poltava oblast 95 of 9

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

Sumy oblast 84 of 8

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

Kirovohrad oblast 74 of 7

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

Cherkasy oblast 63 of 6

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

Chernihiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Odesa oblast 53 of 5

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
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Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

37 entries in 10 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Київський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Брацлавський
  • Канівський
  • Ніжинський
  • Черкаський
  • Кальницький
  • Переяславський
  • Миргородський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Фесько Войтенкоsotnia МошенскаЧеркаський regimentp. 47
Андрей Войтенкоsotnia КулагинаКанівський regimentp. 59
Дацько ВойтенкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 117
Федоръ ВойтенкоУманський regimentp. 133
Матѣй Войтенкоsotnia ТулчйнскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 159

5 of 37 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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