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Zaporozhets (Запорожець): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 102 towns and villages of 17 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: 12 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 2 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 1 placeDonetsk oblast: 6 placesZhytomyr oblastZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 4 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblastKyiv oblast: 6 placesKyiv oblast: 6 placesKirovohrad oblast: 12 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 5 placesOdesa oblast: 4 placesPoltava oblast: 3 placesRivne oblastSumy oblast: 2 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 15 placesKherson oblast: 3 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 1 placeCherkasy oblast: 17 placesChernihiv oblast: 8 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1
  • 2–3
  • 4–6
  • 8–17

Selected oblast

Cherkasy oblast

17 places with the surname Запорожець

All 17 places →

Coverage: Cherkasy oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Cherkasy oblast 1717%
Kharkiv oblast 1515%
Vinnytsia oblast 1212%
Kirovohrad oblast 1212%
Chernihiv oblast 88%
Donetsk oblast 66%
Kyiv oblast 66%
Mykolaiv oblast 55%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 44%
Odesa oblast 44%
All 17 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 33%
Kherson oblast 33%
Luhansk oblast 22%
Sumy oblast 22%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 11%
Ternopil oblast 11%
Khmelnytskyi 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

9 of 102 places

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

Places in the indexed books

Cherkasy oblast 17All 17 places
Kharkiv oblast 1511 of 15

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

Vinnytsia oblast 129 of 12

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

Kirovohrad oblast 129 of 12

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

Chernihiv oblast 86 of 8

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

Donetsk oblast 64 of 6

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

Kyiv oblast 64 of 6

and 2 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 →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 43 of 4

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

Odesa oblast 43 of 4

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

Poltava oblast 3All 3 places
Kherson oblast 3All 3 places
Luhansk oblast 2All 2 places
Sumy oblast 2All 2 places
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Khmelnytskyi oblast 1All 1 place

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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