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Zaiets (Заєць): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 280 towns and villages of 22 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: 31 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 5 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 12 placesDonetsk oblast: 10 placesZhytomyr oblast: 20 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 7 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 9 placesKyiv oblast: 28 placesKyiv oblast: 28 placesKirovohrad oblast: 10 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 6 placesMykolaiv oblast: 6 placesOdesa oblastPoltava oblast: 16 placesRivne oblast: 9 placesSumy oblast: 18 placesTernopil oblast: 4 placesKharkiv oblast: 20 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 27 placesCherkasy oblast: 13 placesChernihiv oblast: 23 placesChernivtsi oblast: 2 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–5
  • 6–9
  • 10–18
  • 20–31

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Vinnytsia oblast

31 places with the surname Заєць

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Vinnytsia oblast 3111%
Kyiv oblast 2810%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 2710%
Chernihiv oblast 238%
Zhytomyr oblast 207%
Kharkiv oblast 207%
Sumy oblast 186%
Poltava oblast 166%
Cherkasy oblast 135%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 124%
All 22 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Donetsk oblast 104%
Kirovohrad oblast 104%
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 93%
Rivne oblast 93%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 72%
Lviv oblast 62%
Mykolaiv oblast 62%
Luhansk oblast 52%
Ternopil oblast 41%
Kherson oblast 31%
Chernivtsi oblast 21%
Volyn 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

44 of 280 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Vinnytsia oblast 3124 of 31

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

Kyiv oblast 288 of 28

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 277 of 27

and 20 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 236 of 23

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

Zhytomyr oblast 205 of 20

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

Kharkiv oblast 205 of 20

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

Sumy oblast 185 of 18

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

Poltava oblast 164 of 16

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

Cherkasy oblast 133 of 13

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 123 of 12

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

Donetsk oblast 103 of 10

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

Kirovohrad oblast 103 of 10

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

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 93 of 9

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

Rivne oblast 93 of 9

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 73 of 7

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

Lviv oblast 63 of 6

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

Mykolaiv oblast 63 of 6

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

Luhansk oblast 53 of 5

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

Ternopil oblast 43 of 4

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

Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Chernivtsi oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

8 entries in 4 regiments

  • Канівський
  • Брацлавський
  • Київський
  • Чернігівський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Иванъ Заецьsotnia КулагинаКанівський regimentp. 59
Павелъ Заецьsotnia БогданенковаКанівський regimentp. 62
Семенъ Заецьsotnia ТерехтимировскаяКанівський regimentp. 72
Иванъ Заецъsotnia ГорянкоцкаяБрацлавський regimentp. 165
Грицько Заецьsotnia ОбуховскаяКиївський regimentp. 207

5 of 8 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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