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Yatsenko (Яценко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 264 towns and villages of 20 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: 10 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 13 placesDonetsk oblast: 13 placesZhytomyr oblast: 23 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 15 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 55 placesKyiv oblast: 55 placesKirovohrad oblast: 16 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 1 placeMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 1 placePoltava oblast: 22 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 16 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 14 placesKherson oblast: 9 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 6 placesCherkasy oblast: 30 placesChernihiv oblast: 9 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 1–4
  • 5–10
  • 13–15
  • 16–55

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

55 places with the surname Яценко

All 55 places →

Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 5521%
Cherkasy oblast 3011%
Zhytomyr oblast 239%
Poltava oblast 228%
Kirovohrad oblast 166%
Sumy oblast 166%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 156%
Kharkiv oblast 145%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 135%
Donetsk oblast 135%
All 20 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 104%
Kherson oblast 93%
Chernihiv oblast 93%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 62%
Mykolaiv oblast 52%
Luhansk oblast 42%
Lviv oblast 11%
Odesa oblast 11%
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

15 of 264 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 5524 of 55

and 31 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 309 of 30

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

Zhytomyr oblast 236 of 23

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

Poltava oblast 226 of 22

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

Kirovohrad oblast 164 of 16

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

Sumy oblast 164 of 16

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 154 of 15

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

Kharkiv oblast 144 of 14

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 133 of 13

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

Donetsk oblast 133 of 13

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

Vinnytsia oblast 103 of 10

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

Kherson oblast 93 of 9

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

Chernihiv oblast 93 of 9

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 63 of 6

and 3 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 43 of 4

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

Lviv oblast 1All 1 place
Odesa oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

111 entries in 16 regiments

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

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иляшъ Яценкоsotnia КриловскаяЧигиринський regimentp. 5
Иванъ Яценкоsotnia КулаковскогоЧеркаський regimentp. 43
Павло ЯценкоКанівський regimentp. 54
Иванъ ЯценкоКорсунський regimentp. 79
Дацько ЯценкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 116

5 of 111 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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