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Voloshyn (Волошин): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Voloshin · Woloszyn. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Counted together with the feminine form Волошина.

Recorded in 404 towns and villages of 24 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: 31 placesVolyn oblast: 6 placesLuhansk oblast: 18 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 18 placesDonetsk oblast: 17 placesZhytomyr oblast: 11 placesZakarpattia oblast: 5 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 11 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 40 placesKyiv oblast: 40 placesKirovohrad oblast: 25 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 30 placesMykolaiv oblast: 19 placesOdesa oblast: 11 placesPoltava oblast: 12 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 10 placesTernopil oblast: 19 placesKharkiv oblast: 25 placesKherson oblast: 5 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 36 placesCherkasy oblast: 20 placesChernihiv oblast: 16 placesChernivtsi oblast: 4 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 4–9
  • 10–16
  • 17–20
  • 25–40

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

40 places with the surname Волошин

All 40 places →

Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 4010%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 369%
Vinnytsia oblast 318%
Lviv oblast 307%
Kirovohrad oblast 256%
Kharkiv oblast 256%
Cherkasy oblast 205%
Mykolaiv oblast 195%
Ternopil oblast 195%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 184%
All 24 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Luhansk oblast 184%
Donetsk oblast 174%
Chernihiv oblast 164%
Poltava oblast 123%
Zhytomyr oblast 113%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 113%
Odesa oblast 113%
Sumy oblast 102%
Rivne oblast 92%
Volyn oblast 61%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 61%
Zakarpattia oblast 51%
Kherson oblast 51%
Chernivtsi oblast 41%

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

64 of 404 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 4024 of 40

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 367 of 36

and 29 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 316 of 31

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 305 of 30

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 254 of 25

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

Kharkiv oblast 254 of 25

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

Cherkasy oblast 203 of 20

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

Mykolaiv oblast 193 of 19

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

Ternopil oblast 193 of 19

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 183 of 18

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

Luhansk oblast 183 of 18

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

Donetsk oblast 173 of 17

and 14 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 163 of 16

and 13 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 123 of 12

and 9 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 113 of 11

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 113 of 11

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

Odesa oblast 113 of 11

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

Sumy oblast 103 of 10

and 7 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Rivne oblast 93 of 9

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

Volyn oblast 63 of 6

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 63 of 6

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

Zakarpattia oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson oblast 53 of 5

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

Chernivtsi oblast 43 of 4

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

Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

147 entries in 15 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Хведоръ Волошинъsotnia ВороновскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 6
Петро Волошинъsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 34
Иванъ Волошинъsotnia ВолынцоваКанівський regimentp. 58
Ярема ВолошинъКорсунський regimentp. 79
Васько ВолошинъБілоцерківський regimentp. 111

5 of 147 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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