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Vovk (Вовк): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 372 towns and villages of 23 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: 34 placesVolyn oblast: 7 placesLuhansk oblast: 3 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 20 placesDonetsk oblast: 8 placesZhytomyr oblast: 15 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 14 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 11 placesKyiv oblast: 18 placesKyiv oblast: 18 placesKirovohrad oblast: 13 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 30 placesMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 2 placesPoltava oblast: 33 placesRivne oblast: 3 placesSumy oblast: 17 placesTernopil oblast: 24 placesKharkiv oblast: 26 placesKherson oblast: 2 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 13 placesCherkasy oblast: 36 placesChernihiv oblast: 37 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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Chernihiv oblast

37 places with the surname Вовк

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 3710%
Cherkasy oblast 3610%
Vinnytsia oblast 349%
Poltava oblast 339%
Lviv oblast 308%
Kharkiv oblast 267%
Ternopil oblast 246%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 205%
Kyiv oblast 185%
Sumy oblast 175%
All 23 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Zhytomyr oblast 154%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 144%
Kirovohrad oblast 133%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 133%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 113%
Donetsk oblast 82%
Volyn oblast 72%
Mykolaiv oblast 51%
Luhansk oblast 31%
Rivne oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 21%
Kherson oblast 21%
Zakarpattia 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

75 of 372 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 3724 of 37

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

Cherkasy oblast 367 of 36

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

Vinnytsia oblast 347 of 34

and 27 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 337 of 33

and 26 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Lviv oblast 306 of 30

and 24 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kharkiv oblast 265 of 26

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

Ternopil oblast 245 of 24

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 204 of 20

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

Kyiv oblast 183 of 18

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

Sumy oblast 173 of 17

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

Zhytomyr oblast 153 of 15

and 12 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 143 of 14

and 11 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 133 of 13

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 133 of 13

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 113 of 11

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

Donetsk oblast 83 of 8

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

Volyn 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 →

Luhansk oblast 3All 3 places
Rivne oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 2All 2 places
Kherson oblast 2All 2 places
Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

11 entries in 7 regiments

  • Черкаський
  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Переяславський
  • Корсунський
  • Київський
  • Миргородський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Степанъ Вовкъsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 34
Мисько Вовкъsotnia Максима ГородийскогоКорсунський regimentp. 98
Андрѣй ВовкъУманський regimentp. 132
Федоръ Вовкъsotnia ГорянкоцкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 165
Лукянъ Вовкъsotnia ПредримирскогоКиївський regimentp. 202

5 of 11 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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