Boyko
A Carpathian highlander — named for his people.
- Origin
- Ukrainian
- Register
- Ukrainian family
The seat of Boyko
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Boyko community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Boyko has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Boyko clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Boyko clan →What does the Boyko name mean?
An ethnographic name — a Boyko, one of the highland people of the Carpathian mountains of western Ukraine. A man known by his mountain folk.
The history of Boyko
The Boykos are one of the highland peoples of the Ukrainian Carpathians, herders and foresters of the high valleys, and a man from among them carried 'Boyko' as his name when he came down to the plains. It is a common surname of western Ukraine — a whole mountain folk remembered in a name, like the Vlachs and Greeks scattered through other registers.
Explore With Your Ancestors · Beta
Pick any year from 500 to 1945 and any place on earth — the Boyko country, or a shore no Boyko ever reached. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.