Ukraine

Capital : Kiev

History

Ukraine was divided between the invading forces of Russia and Austria towards the end of the C18th and remained a Soviet Republic until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s when it became an independent country. Traditionally seen as the 'breadbasket' of Soviet Russia, the Ukraine contained many collective farms under the Communists which were used to supply food to cities outside the region.

Ukrainian Names

There are variations in spelling but many Ukrainian names are, like those of Russia, taken from the Bible and the early saints.

Male

Andrij	Bogdan	Bohomir	Choma	Danylo	Demian
Dmitro	Fadey	Fedir	Gennadi	Harasym	Havrylo
Hryhir	Hryhorii	Ilia	Ivan	Ivas	Iwan
Jakiv	Jan	Jon	Josyp	Juriy	Kindrat
Klym	Kosma	Kostya	Lavro	Lev	Luka
Lukhym	Maksym	Marko	Matvi	Matviy	Mykhailo
Mykola	Myron	Nykyfor	Oleksander	Pavlo	Petro
Prokip	Pylyp	Rhostislav	Roman	Rustam	Samiilo
Sava	Semen	Sergei	Serguei	Serhiy	Slavo
Stanislav	Stepan	Taras	Tomko	Tymofiy	Vakhno
Vanko	Vasyl	Volodymir	Youri

Female

Bohdanna	Iryna	Ivanna	Kilina	Lilia	Lioubov
Malanka	Maria	Marunia	Olena	Palahna	Valentyna
Vita	Zhanna

Surnames

Many have their feminine form which is usually an '-a' ending (Morski - Morska) but these are not necessarily borne by women as Sergei Bubka is a male Ukrainian athlete.

Andriiash	Andriiets	Andrukhovych	Andrusyshyn	Antonova	Artiukhov
Averbukh	Babiy	Bader	Bagach	Bahach	Balakhonova
Balakun	Balan	Baran	Basaraba	Bazyr	Belonog
Beresch	Bereza	Berliawsky	Bezushko	Bildub	Bilyi
Bilyk	Bobrovnyk	Bodnar	Bodnaruk	Bodrova	Boiko
Bojchuk	Borodayko	Borovoi	Borschak	Bouzhenko	Boychuk
Braslavets	Brekhun	Brodskyj	Bubka	Buhaj	Bulakhovsky
Bulkovsky	Burchylo	Buzhenko	Buzulukov	Chaban	Chepil
Cheryshova	Chymertys	Danylovych	Didukh	Dimitrenko	Dmitrenko
Dobrun	Dobrydnev	Dologodin	Doronenko	Drska	Dudar
Duma	Durkhnova	Dziuba	Fedioushina	Fedoriv	Fedorivskyj
Filonenko	Frankivsk	Galkin	Gerashenko	Gontchar	Govorova
Halibey	Halytsky	Halytskyj	Harasymak	Harmata	Herasymenkov
Hergot(a)	Hladka	Hlukh	Holota	Holynasty	Honchar
Horbatiuk	Hovorova	Hryhoruk	Hryniuk	Hryniv	Hukdin
Hulei	Hutniak	Hutsuliak	Ihrayev	Ilkow	Illkiv
Ivaniuk	Ivaniv	Ivankhiv	Ivankiv	Ivano	Ivantskyj
Ivanyshyn	Ivashko	Ivasiv	Janchyshyn	Janchyskyj	Janiv
Jankiv	Jankovyj	Jantsur	Janyshevskyj	Kalyna	Khlusovych
Khnykin	Khorobehinski	Khymka	Khymko	Kindrachuk	Kiryukhin
Klei	Kliubova	Kolesnitchenko	Kolisnky	Kolodiy	Kolpakov
Kornyyev	Koroschinski	Kosar	Koshka	Kosiak	Kosmenka
Kotyk	Koval	Kovalchuk	Kovbe	Kozachenko	Kramar
Kravchenko	Kravchuk	Kravets	Kravtsiv	Kripak	Krykun
Krynychnyj	Kryvonis	Kryzhanovsky	Kulbaba	Kupchenko	Kupets
Kushnir	Kutsyj	Kylymnyk	Kynzhnyk	Lahenza	Lavrenchuk
Lavrinenko	Lebed	Lebiod	Liashenko	Lishchtnskaya	Lobodyn
Lockimo	Lugina	Lukasevich	Luknyiv	Lviv	Lytvynenko
Malanchyn	Malinevski	Malyar	Mandrusiak	Marchenko	Marianich
Marunchak	Maschenko	Mashchenko	Masla	Maslianka	Matsevko
Matviyenko	Medvedev(a)	Medvid	Medvidskyj	Melnyk	Merschiy
Michayluk	Mirgorodskaia	Miroshnik	Miroshrive	Misutin	Mohyla
Moroz	Morskyj	Moskalyk	Movchan	Msksymchuk	Muhin
Mukhailevych	Mukolayiv	Murza	Mykhailuk	Nedelenko	Nepokupny
Nikolaychuk	Nikon	Nimchuk	Nis	Noha	Novokhatskyj
Nykyforuk	Odynets	Oko	Oleksandruk	Orach	Osovich
Ossovitch	Ostrivnyj	Ovcharova	Palahniuk	Palyvoda	Pamerkhov
Panchukh	Panych	Patzukin	Pavliuk	Pavlovskyj	Pavlovych
Pavluk	Pavlyn	Pavlysh	Pavlyshyn	Pawliuk	Pekar
Perechkoura	Petrova	Petruk	Petryshyn	Piddubnyj	Pidhirnyj
Pintusevich	Pintussevich	Plaksa	Podkaopayeva	Podolianchuk	Podrova
Poliakov	Polishchuk	Poluliaschenko	Polyvach	Popovic	Potsiluyko
Poukha	Prokipets	Pryimak	Ptashnyk	Pyvovar	Razorenov
Redko	Romaniuk	Romanko	Romanych	Romanyshyn	Roven
Rudiak	Rudnyk	Runitsky	Ruscova	Rybalchenko	Rybalka
Rybalko	Sadovnycha	Samborak	Samiilak	Samiilenko	Samokhval
Samulaik	Savchenko	Savchuk	Savchyn	Semsugova	Senkov
Shamenko	Sharipov	Shelestenko	Sheremeta	Shevchenko	Shliakhta
Shostak	Shvedyk	Shynkar	Sidorov	Skorniakov	Skriabin
Skvanuk	Slivinsky	Smetaniuk	Smugula	Soroka	Sorokolat
Spivak	Stefaniuk	Stefanyk	Stempler	Strakh	Svetlichnyi
Svystun	Tamazov	Tarakonov	Taranenko	Tarassenko	Tarasuk
Tataryn	Tchmil	Telaschenko	Terelia	Tereshchuk	Ternopilskyj
Ternopol	Teslenko	Tkach	Tkachuk	Tomkivskyj	Toschenko
Tourkay	Tretiak	Tsuper	Urbanski	Vakhnenko	Vakhniak
Vanchyshyn	Varcholek	Vasylenko	Venhrynovych	Verbytsky	Viitenko
Virastyuk	Vivchar	Voichenko	Voloshyn	Volovyk	Volyn
Volyniak	Vorona	Vovk	Vynnyk	Warholic	Yanchynskyj
Yaroshenko	Zabolonyj	Zabudko	Zaderii	Zadinsky	Zagorodniuk
Zahrebelnyj	Zakhodko	Zaozirnyj	Zhurba	Zozulia	Zub

Titles

These also occur as surnames.

Desyantnik foreman	Diak clerk	Hetman Cossack leader
Kozak Cossack	Palamar sacristan	Psysar scribe
Soldat / Zhovnir soldier	Starosta elder	Tytar church warden
Ulan lancer	Viit mayor	Vladyka archbishop
Voyevoda governor	Voznaik bailiff

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This collection of names compiled by Kate Monk. Copyright January 1997, Kate Monk. Last updated February, 98. Copies may be made for personal use only.