Родовід Архів
Sign inStart the search €19Account
Menu
Admin

Shevchenko (Шевченко): where the surname was recorded in Ukraine

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

Recorded in 986 towns and villages of 21 oblasts in the state memory books of 1917–1960. This is a count of places, not people or ancestors.

The village will show whether this is your family. Write it below: we'll check for free.

Free: tell us your family's villagewe reply by email whether the books survived
Vinnytsia oblast: 28 placesVolyn oblastLuhansk oblast: 50 placesDnipropetrovsk oblast: 59 placesDonetsk oblast: 59 placesZhytomyr oblast: 20 placesZakarpattia oblast: 1 placeZaporizhzhia oblast: 48 placesIvano-Frankivsk oblast: 1 placeKyiv oblast: 157 placesKyiv oblast: 157 placesKirovohrad oblast: 92 placesCrimeaCrimeaLviv oblastMykolaiv oblast: 27 placesOdesa oblast: 12 placesPoltava oblast: 53 placesRivne oblast: 1 placeSumy oblast: 81 placesTernopil oblast: 1 placeKharkiv oblast: 105 placesKherson oblast: 31 placesKhmelnytskyi oblast: 10 placesCherkasy oblast: 103 placesChernihiv oblast: 47 placesChernivtsi oblast
  • Places per oblast:
  • none
  • 1–10
  • 12–31
  • 47–53
  • 59–157

Selected oblast

Kyiv oblast

157 places with the surname Шевченко

All 157 places →

Coverage: Kyiv oblast →

Or choose from the list

Search another surname

Which village is your family from? We'll check for free

Tell us the village where the family lived: we'll see whether its parish registers survive and reply by email within 2 business days.

These fields serve only to answer you. We keep them as we keep letters, up to 24 months: how we store data.

The same oblasts as a list

OblastPlacesShare%
Kyiv oblast 15716%
Kharkiv oblast 10511%
Cherkasy oblast 10310%
Kirovohrad oblast 929%
Sumy oblast 818%
Dnipropetrovsk oblast 596%
Donetsk oblast 596%
Poltava oblast 535%
Luhansk oblast 505%
Zaporizhzhia oblast 485%
All 21 oblasts
OblastPlacesShare%
Chernihiv oblast 475%
Kherson oblast 313%
Vinnytsia oblast 283%
Mykolaiv oblast 273%
Zhytomyr oblast 202%
Odesa oblast 121%
Khmelnytskyi oblast 101%
Zakarpattia oblast 11%
Ivano-Frankivsk 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

32 places with a ready parish description · 24 shown

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

Places in the indexed books

Kyiv oblast 15724 of 157

and 133 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Other oblasts20Show
Kharkiv oblast 1058 of 105

and 97 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Cherkasy oblast 1038 of 103

and 95 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kirovohrad oblast 927 of 92

and 85 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Sumy oblast 816 of 81

and 75 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Dnipropetrovsk oblast 594 of 59

and 55 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Donetsk oblast 594 of 59

and 55 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Poltava oblast 534 of 53

and 49 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Luhansk oblast 504 of 50

and 46 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zaporizhzhia oblast 483 of 48

and 45 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Chernihiv oblast 473 of 47

and 44 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Kherson oblast 313 of 31

and 28 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Vinnytsia oblast 283 of 28

and 25 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Mykolaiv oblast 273 of 27

and 24 places more in the oblast · all in the search →

Zhytomyr oblast 203 of 20

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

Odesa oblast 123 of 12

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

Khmelnytskyi oblast 103 of 10

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

Zakarpattia oblast 1All 1 place
Ivano-Frankivsk oblast 1All 1 place
Rivne oblast 1All 1 place
Ternopil oblast 1All 1 place
Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 164931 entries in 12 regimentsShow
Older than the memory books

Register of the Zaporozhian Host, 1649

31 entries in 12 regiments

  • Білоцерківський
  • Брацлавський
  • Корсунський
  • Кальницький
  • Переяславський
  • Кропивнянський
  • Полтавський
  • Чигиринський
  • Київський
  • Миргородський
  • Уманський
  • Ніжинський

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

As printed in the editionRegimentPage
Тарасъ Шевченкоsotnia БоровицкаяЧигиринський regimentp. 8
Андрушко Шевченкоsotnia КорчовскаяКорсунський regimentp. 92
Протасъ ШевченкоБілоцерківський regimentp. 108
Педоръ Шевченкоsotnia БанковскаяУманський regimentp. 134
Семенъ ШевченкоБрацлавський regimentp. 156

5 of 31 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.

Similar surnames in the index

Similar in spelling. That does not make the families related.

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.

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.

Do you know the village your family came from?

Give us the surname and the village; we reply by email whether the parish books survive. It is free. Next is the search: a letter on where your family’s books are kept.

Don’t know the village? Send us the surname and the oblast: we will reply by email on whether there is enough to start.

Free checkStart the search €19

Free check first, then the search if the books exist. If the catalog shows no register of the parish for 1850–1917, we refund the €19.

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.

How we read the books: Method →
The search €19