Slavic
Ukrainian family heritage
The Slavic lands, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Russian and the South Slavs.
Clan Rising is the living atlas of European family heritage, built one people at a time. Ukrainian heritage is now on the map, the meaning of your surname, the homeland it came from, and the stories that travelled with it into the diaspora.
On the map
Where Ukrainian heritage sits in Europe
This is the homeland on the modern map. The names below already file here; the heritage regions that subdivide it, and the deeper map, are coming next.
Ukrainian names already in the atlas
- MelnykThe miller, Ukraine's commonest name.Melnyk surname meaning & origin โ
- ShevchenkoSon of the shoemaker, and the name of the Bard.Shevchenko surname meaning & origin โ
- KovalThe smith, the bare forge-name of the steppe.Koval surname meaning & origin โ
- KovalenkoSon of the smith, the forge in -enko.Kovalenko surname meaning & origin โ
- BondarenkoSon of the cooper, the barrel-maker's line.Bondarenko surname meaning & origin โ
- TkachenkoSon of the weaver, the loom in -enko.Tkachenko surname meaning & origin โ
- KravchenkoSon of the tailor, the needle's line.Kravchenko surname meaning & origin โ
- KovalchukThe smith's son, the forge in western -chuk.Kovalchuk surname meaning & origin โ
- BoykoA Carpathian highlander, named for his people.Boyko surname meaning & origin โ
- OliynykThe oil-presser, sunflower-oil's maker.Oliynyk surname meaning & origin โ
- PolishchukA man of the Polissya woods.Polishchuk surname meaning & origin โ
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