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Zhuk (Жук): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 323 towns and villages of 23 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: 24 placesVolyn oblast: 1 placeLuhansk oblast: 4 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 15 placesDonetsk oblast: 14 placesZhytomyr oblast: 14 placesZakarpattia oblastZaporizhzhia oblast: 16 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 2 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKyiv oblast: 24 placesKirovohrad oblast: 16 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblast: 32 placesMykolaiv oblast: 3 placesOdesa oblast: 3 placesPoltava oblast: 15 placesRivne oblast: 13 placesSumy oblast: 15 placesTernopil oblast: 23 placesKharkiv oblast: 14 placesKherson oblast: 7 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 24 placesCherkasy oblast: 17 placesChernihiv oblast: 24 placesChernivtsi oblast: 3 places
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–3
  • 4–14
  • 15–17
  • 23–32

Selected oblast

Lviv oblast

32 places with the surname Жук

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Coverage: Lviv oblast →

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The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Lviv oblast 3210%
Vinnytsia oblast 247%
Kyiv oblast 247%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 247%
Chernihiv oblast 247%
Ternopil oblast 237%
Cherkasy oblast 175%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 165%
Kirovohrad oblast 165%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 155%
All 23 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Poltava oblast 155%
Sumy oblast 155%
Donetsk oblast 144%
Zhytomyr oblast 144%
Kharkiv oblast 144%
Rivne oblast 134%
Kherson oblast 72%
Luhansk oblast 41%
Mykolaiv oblast 31%
Odesa oblast 31%
Chernivtsi oblast 31%
Ivano-Frankivsk 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

54 of 323 places · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Lviv oblast 3224 of 32

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

Vinnytsia oblast 245 of 24

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kyiv oblast 245 of 24

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Khmelnytskyi oblast 245 of 24

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 245 of 24

and 19 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Ternopil oblast 235 of 23

and 18 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 174 of 17

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

Zaporizhzhia oblast 163 of 16

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

Kirovohrad oblast 163 of 16

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

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 153 of 15

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

Poltava oblast 153 of 15

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

Sumy oblast 153 of 15

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

Donetsk oblast 143 of 14

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

Zhytomyr oblast 143 of 14

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

Kharkiv oblast 143 of 14

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

Rivne oblast 133 of 13

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

Kherson oblast 73 of 7

and 4 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 →

Mykolaiv oblast 3All 3 places
Odesa oblast 3All 3 places
Chernivtsi oblast 3All 3 places
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 2All 2 places
Volyn oblast 1All 1 place
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

22 entries in 9 regiments

  • Миргородський
  • Білоцерківський
  • Переяславський
  • Черкаський
  • Канівський
  • Корсунський
  • Уманський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Брацлавський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Степанъ Жукъsotnia ЛазареваЧеркаський regimentp. 39
Сидоръ Жукъsotnia КлимоваКанівський regimentp. 67
Дмитро Жукъsotnia ИвахниченковаКорсунський regimentp. 86
Иванъ ЖукъБілоцерківський regimentp. 113
Мартинъ ЖукъУманський regimentp. 142

5 of 22 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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