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Zaiats (Заяць): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 128 towns and villages of 15 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: 4 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblastDonetsk oblastZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblast: 2 placesZaporizhzhia oblast: 2 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 4 placesKyiv oblast: 4 placesKirovohrad oblastCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 30 placesMykolaiv oblastOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 2 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblastTernopil oblast: 32 placesKharkiv oblast: 6 placesKherson oblast: 1 placeKhmelnytskyi oblast: 4 placesCherkasy oblast: 1 placeChernihiv oblast: 33 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
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  • 6–33

Selected oblast

Chernihiv oblast

33 places with the surname Заяць

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 3326%
Ternopil oblast 3225%
Lviv oblast 3023%
Kharkiv oblast 65%
Vinnytsia oblast 43%
Kyiv oblast 43%
Luhansk oblast 43%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 43%
Zakarpattia oblast 22%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 22%
All 15 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 22%
Chernivtsi oblast 22%
Rivne oblast 11%
Kherson oblast 11%
Cherkasy 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

45 of 128 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Chernihiv oblast 3324 of 33

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

Ternopil oblast 3220 of 32

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

Lviv oblast 3018 of 30

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

Kharkiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Vinnytsia oblast 43 of 4

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

Kyiv oblast 43 of 4

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

Luhansk oblast 43 of 4

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 43 of 4

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

Zakarpattia oblast 2All 2 places
Zaporizhzhia oblast 2All 2 places
Poltava oblast 2All 2 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Kherson oblast 1All 1 place
Cherkasy oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

3 entries in 3 regiments

  • Уманський
  • Брацлавський
  • Кропивнянський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Василь Заяцьsotnia ИванскаяУманський regimentp. 145
Василь Заяцьsotnia ТулчйнскаяБрацлавський regimentp. 160
Матюша Заяцьsotnia АрклийскаяКропивнянський regimentp. 241

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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