You might have noble ancestry: discover five Ukrainian surnames with Polish roots.
Some Ukrainians have surnames that originate from other languages and are associated with different nations. This is due to the intertwined histories of Ukraine and its neighboring countries.
The Ukrainian genealogical society "Рідні" reports on where in Ukraine people with Polish surnames reside.
We're talking about five surnames — Vyshnevsky, Halitsky, Kovalevsky, Pototsky, Chaplinsky.
Vyshnevsky
Currently, there are 3,679 bearers of this surname in Ukraine. They reside in Kyiv, as well as in the Odesa, Kharkiv, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, and Donetsk regions.
1 Halitsky
In Ukraine, there are 1,972 individuals with this surname. The majority of Halitsky surname holders are found in Kyiv, but they also live in Odesa, Zhytomyr, and other regions of Ukraine.
2 Kovalevsky
There are 2,384 people with the surname Kovalevsky. Most of them live in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and other major cities in Ukraine.
3 Pototsky
Today, there are 966 individuals in Ukraine with the surname Pototsky. They primarily reside in the western part of the country, but many also live in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Dnipro, and the Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions.
4 Chaplinsky
There are 278 people with the surname Chaplinsky. The bearers of this surname are concentrated in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Odesa regions.
5 Previously, "Telegraph" reported on where in Ukraine people with Crimean Tatar surnames live.