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Yakymenko (Якименко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

Also spelled: Yakimenko · Jakymenko. These are Latin spellings of the same Ukrainian name.

Recorded in 163 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: 9 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblastDnipropetrovsk oblast: 7 placesDonetsk oblast: 12 placesZhytomyr oblast: 11 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 8 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 24 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKirovohrad oblast: 6 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 7 placesOdesa oblast: 5 placesPoltava oblast: 13 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 14 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 23 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 2 placesCherkasy oblast: 12 placesChernihiv oblast: 5 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 5–7
  • 8–11
  • 12–24

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Kyiv oblast

24 places with the surname Якименко

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 2415%
Kharkiv oblast 2314%
Sumy oblast 149%
Poltava oblast 138%
Donetsk oblast 127%
Cherkasy oblast 127%
Zhytomyr oblast 117%
Vinnytsia oblast 96%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 85%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 74%
All 18 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Mykolaiv oblast 74%
Kirovohrad oblast 64%
Odesa oblast 53%
Chernihiv oblast 53%
Kherson oblast 32%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 21%
Rivne oblast 11%
Ternopil 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

10 of 163 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 24All 24 places
Kharkiv oblast 2311 of 23

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

Sumy oblast 146 of 14

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

Poltava oblast 136 of 13

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

Donetsk oblast 125 of 12

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

Cherkasy oblast 125 of 12

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

Zhytomyr oblast 115 of 11

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

Vinnytsia oblast 94 of 9

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 83 of 8

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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 73 of 7

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

Kirovohrad 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 →

Chernihiv oblast 53 of 5

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

Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2All 2 places
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  • КоминиШепетівський р-н
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

68 entries in 14 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Протасъ ЯкименкоЧигиринський regimentp. 1
Мойсѣй Якименкоsotnia ДрагилеваЧеркаський regimentp. 35
Гарасимъ Якименкоsotnia СтародубоваКанівський regimentp. 56
Іосько ЯкименкоКорсунський regimentp. 79
Лукашъ ЯкименкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 111

5 of 68 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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