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Vorona (Ворона): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 156 towns and villages of 21 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: 1 placeVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 9 placesZhytomyr oblast: 2 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 3 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKyiv oblast: 13 placesKirovohrad oblast: 9 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 7 placesMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 11 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 19 placesTernopil oblast: 7 placesKharkiv oblast: 15 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 5 placesCherkasy oblast: 14 placesChernihiv oblast: 18 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–2
  • 3–5
  • 7–9
  • 11–19

Selected oblast

Sumy oblast

19 places with the surname Ворона

All 19 places →

Coverage: Sumy oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Sumy oblast 1912%
Chernihiv oblast 1812%
Kharkiv oblast 1510%
Cherkasy oblast 149%
Kyiv oblast 138%
Poltava oblast 117%
Donetsk oblast 96%
Kirovohrad oblast 96%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 74%
Lviv oblast 74%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Ternopil oblast 74%
Mykolaiv oblast 53%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 53%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 43%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 32%
Luhansk oblast 32%
Zhytomyr oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Vinnytsia oblast 11%
Volyn oblast 11%
Odesa 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

17 of 156 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Sumy oblast 19All 19 places
Chernihiv oblast 189 of 18

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

Kharkiv oblast 157 of 15

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

Cherkasy oblast 147 of 14

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

Kyiv oblast 136 of 13

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

Poltava oblast 115 of 11

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

Donetsk oblast 94 of 9

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

Kirovohrad oblast 94 of 9

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 73 of 7

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

Lviv oblast 73 of 7

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

Ternopil oblast 73 of 7

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

Mykolaiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 53 of 5

and 2 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 →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Zhytomyr oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Vinnytsia oblast 1All 1 place
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

14 entries in 7 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Полтавський
  • Черкаський
  • Київський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Уманський
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Кондратъ Воронаsotnia МарковаЧеркаський regimentp. 37
Васпль Воронаsotnia ИванскаяУманський regimentp. 147
Андрей Воронаsotnia ТрипольскаяКиївський regimentp. 205
Петро Воронаsotnia ЯблоновскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 247
Грицько Воронаsotnia Лувенская СелскаяМиргородський regimentp. 270

5 of 14 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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