Ukrainian Last Name Generator
Ukrainian family names in their own spelling
Ukrainian surnames transliterated from Ukrainian, from Shevchenko, Kovalchuk and Melnyk to Fedoryshyn, Kotsiubynskyi and the Cossack nickname Perebyinis. Family names only, one per entry.
About Ukrainian last names
Ukrainian surnames are easy to spot by their endings. The best known is -enko, which once meant 'son of': Shevchenko is the shoemaker's son, Kovalenko the smith's, Bondarenko the cooper's. It is most at home in central and eastern Ukraine. In Volhynia, Podillia and the west the same idea is carried by -chuk, -uk and -iuk (Kovalchuk, Tkachuk, Havryliuk), and Galicia adds -yshyn, formed from a mother's name (Fedoryshyn, Romanyshyn), and -iv (Petriv, Ivaniv).
Many surnames are a plain word: a trade (Koval, Melnyk, Kravets, Bondar, Honchar), an animal or bird (Vovk, Zaiets, Soroka) or a place of origin (Volynets, Poltavets, Boiko, Hutsuliak). The Zaporozhian Cossacks left the most colorful layer, nicknames that stuck as family names, often a verb joined to a noun: Perebyinis, Vernydub, Dobryvechir and Nepyipyvo, which says 'do not drink beer'.
Grammar matters when you use them. Names in -enko, -chuk, -uk and -ko are the same for men and women. Adjective surnames change: Kotsiubynskyi, Kovalskyi and Chornyi become Kotsiubynska, Kovalska and Chorna for a woman. The list gives the masculine form and spells everything from Ukrainian, so you will see Oliinyk and Oleksiienko, not the Russian-based Oleynik and Alekseenko.
How to choose Ukrainian last names
- Match the ending to the region. Use -enko for a family from Poltava, Kyiv or Kharkiv, -chuk or -iuk for Volhynia and Podillia, and -yshyn or -iv for Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk.
- For a woman, leave -enko, -chuk, -uk, -ko and noun surnames alone and change only the adjective ones: Levytskyi becomes Levytska and Sadovyi becomes Sadova.
- Do not confuse the surname with the patronymic. Ivanovych and Petrivna are made from the father's first name and are not family names.
- Keep one spelling system. The list follows Ukrainian, so it is Boiko, Oliinyk and Kovalskyi throughout, though older papers may show Boyko or Kovalsky for the same family.
- A Cossack nickname surname such as Netudykhata or Pidkuimukha is hard to forget, so one per story is usually enough.
Frequently asked questions
What are the most common Ukrainian last names?
Melnyk, Shevchenko, Boiko, Kovalenko, Bondarenko, Tkachenko, Kovalchuk, Kravchenko and Oliinyk are regularly named among the most common. We give no ranking or figures, because counts differ from source to source. All nine are in the list.
Do Ukrainian last names change for women?
Only some. Surnames in -enko, -chuk, -uk and -ko and plain nouns such as Koval or Moroz stay the same. Adjective surnames take a feminine ending, so Vyshnevskyi becomes Vyshnevska and Zabolotnyi becomes Zabolotna. The list shows the masculine form only, so one family is not counted twice.
What does -enko mean in a Ukrainian surname?
It began as a suffix for a son or a young member of a household, added to a father's name or trade. Petrenko is Petro's son, Kovalenko the smith's son and Hrytsenko the son of Hryts. Over time these became fixed family names.
Why is it Oliinyk here and Oleynik elsewhere?
Older documents often spelled Ukrainian names by way of Russian. This list transliterates from Ukrainian with one system, which gives Oliinyk, Oleksiienko, Hordiienko and Khmelnytskyi. If you are matching a real family's papers, expect to meet both spellings.
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All 500 Ukrainian last names
A: 9 names
- Andriichuk
- Andrukhiv
- Andrukhovych
- Andrushko
- Andrusiak
- Andrusyshyn
- Antoniv
- Apostol
- Artemenko
B: 32 names
- Babenko
- Babiak
- Bazhan
- Berdnyk
- Bereza
- Bezborodko
- Bezruchko
- Bezuhlyi
- Bezverkhyi
- Bilokin
- Bilokur
- Bilous
- Bilozerskyi
- Bilych
- Bilyi
- Bilyk
- Bilynskyi
- Bodnar
- Boichuk
- Boiko
- Bondar
- Bondarchuk
- Bondarenko
- Borodai
- Borshch
- Borsuk
- Bortnyk
- Brovar
- Bublyk
- Bulba
- Buriak
- Burlak
C: 11 names
- Chaika
- Chasnyk
- Chornobai
- Chornobryvets
- Chornomaz
- Chornous
- Chornovil
- Chornyi
- Chumachenko
- Chumak
- Chupryna
D: 25 names
- Danyliuk
- Datsiuk
- Dehtiar
- Demchyshyn
- Demkiv
- Denysiuk
- Diak
- Didukh
- Dmytrenko
- Dmytriv
- Dmytruk
- Dobryvechir
- Donets
- Doroshenko
- Dovbush
- Dovbyk
- Dovhal
- Dovhaniuk
- Dovhoshyia
- Dovzhenko
- Dub
- Dudar
- Dudko
- Dudnyk
- Dziuba
F: 6 names
- Fedorenko
- Fedoriv
- Fedoruk
- Fedoryshyn
- Fedyshyn
- Franko
H: 37 names
- Halushka
- Halytskyi
- Hamaliia
- Harbuz
- Havrylenko
- Havryliuk
- Havrylyshyn
- Hladkyi
- Hnatiuk
- Hnatyshyn
- Hohol
- Holota
- Holovatyi
- Holovko
- Holub
- Honchar
- Honcharenko
- Honta
- Horbachevskyi
- Hordiienko
- Horobets
- Horodetskyi
- Horokh
- Horyn
- Hrabar
- Hrabovskyi
- Hrushevskyi
- Hrynevych
- Hrytsai
- Hrytsenko
- Hulai
- Hulevych
- Huliak
- Hunia
- Husak
- Hutsul
- Hutsuliak
I: 10 names
- Ilnytskyi
- Ishchenko
- Ivanenko
- Ivanets
- Ivaniuk
- Ivaniv
- Ivanyshyn
- Ivashchenko
- Ivashko
- Ivasiuk
K: 64 names
- Kachur
- Kalynets
- Kalynovskyi
- Kaminskyi
- Kanivets
- Karas
- Karavanskyi
- Karmaliuk
- Khmelnytskyi
- Khomenko
- Khrushch
- Khutornyi
- Khymchuk
- Klymchuk
- Klymenko
- Knysh
- Kobzar
- Kochubei
- Kolisnyk
- Kolomiiets
- Komar
- Kondratiuk
- Korniichuk
- Korotych
- Korzh
- Kostiuk
- Kostyshyn
- Kotliar
- Kotliarevskyi
- Kotsiuba
- Kotsiubynskyi
- Koval
K, continued
- Kovalchuk
- Kovalenko
- Kovalskyi
- Kovbasa
- Kozak
- Kozhemiaka
- Kozhukhar
- Kozlovskyi
- Kozyr
- Kramar
- Kravchenko
- Kravchuk
- Kravets
- Kropyvnytskyi
- Krushelnytskyi
- Krutyholova
- Kryvonis
- Kryvosheia
- Kucherenko
- Kucheriavyi
- Kukharenko
- Kulbaba
- Kulchytskyi
- Kulish
- Kulyk
- Kurylo
- Kushnir
- Kushnirenko
- Kushniruk
- Kuzmenko
- Kyrylenko
- Kyryliuk
L: 25 names
- Lavrynenko
- Lazarenko
- Lemko
- Lesiv
- Levchenko
- Levytskyi
- Liakh
- Lisnyk
- Lisovyi
- Lobanovskyi
- Loboda
- Lomaka
- Lozynskyi
- Lukashevych
- Lukianchuk
- Lukianenko
- Lupybatko
- Lupynis
- Lutsiv
- Lymar
- Lypynskyi
- Lys
- Lysenko
- Lytvyn
- Lytvynenko
M: 34 names
- Maidaniuk
- Makarchuk
- Makarevych
- Makohon
- Maksymenko
- Makukha
- Maliar
- Malynovskyi
- Mamai
- Marchenko
- Marchuk
- Matviienko
- Mazailo
- Mazepa
- Medianyk
- Medvid
- Melnychuk
- Melnyk
- Miroshnyk
- Mnohohrishnyi
- Moiseienko
- Moroz
- Moskal
- Moskalets
- Mostovyi
- Mudryk
- Muliar
- Muzyka
- Mykhailenko
- Mykhailiv
- Mykhailyshyn
- Mykolaichuk
- Mykytyn
- Myronenko
N: 16 names
- Nahornyi
- Naumchuk
- Nechai
- Nechyporuk
- Nechytailo
- Nedbailo
- Neizhmak
- Neizhpapa
- Nepokrytyi
- Nepyipyvo
- Nepyivoda
- Nesteruk
- Netudykhata
- Nevmyvaka
- Nosenko
- Novytskyi
O: 12 names
- Okun
- Oleksiienko
- Oleksiuk
- Oliinyk
- Omelchenko
- Onyshchenko
- Onyshchuk
- Orel
- Oseledets
- Ostapchuk
- Ostrozkyi
- Ovcharenko
P: 43 names
- Palamar
- Palamarchuk
- Palii
- Panasenko
- Panchyshyn
- Panibudlaska
- Pankiv
- Parfeniuk
- Pasichnyk
- Pavlenko
- Pavliuk
- Pavlychko
- Perebyinis
- Perekhrest
- Petrenko
- Petriv
- Petruk
- Petrushevych
- Petryk
- Petryshyn
- Pidhirnyi
- Pidkova
- Pidkuimukha
- Pidmohylnyi
- Pidopryhora
- Pluzhnyk
- Podoliak
- Pokotylo
- Polishchuk
- Polovyi
- Poltavets
- Polubotok
- Ponomarchuk
- Ponomarenko
- Popovych
- Potapenko
- Prokopchuk
- Prykhodko
- Pylypchuk
- Pylypenko
- Pyrih
- Pysar
- Pysarenko
R: 20 names
- Radchenko
- Reshetnyk
- Revutskyi
- Riaboshapka
- Riznyk
- Romanenko
- Romanets
- Romaniuk
- Romaniv
- Romanyshyn
- Rozumovskyi
- Rudenko
- Rudko
- Rudnytskyi
- Rusnak
- Rusyn
- Rybak
- Rybalka
- Rylskyi
- Rymar
S: 66 names
- Sadovskyi
- Sadovyi
- Sahaidachnyi
- Sahaidak
- Salohub
- Samchuk
- Savchenko
- Savchuk
- Savytskyi
- Semeniuk
- Semenko
- Senyshyn
- Serbyn
- Sereda
- Serhiichuk
- Shakhrai
- Shapoval
- Shcherbak
- Shchuka
- Sheptytskyi
- Shevchenko
- Shevchuk
- Shkurat
- Shulzhenko
- Shumeiko
- Shumylo
- Shvets
- Shvydko
- Shvydkyi
- Sirko
- Skliar
- Skoryk
- Skovoroda
S, continued
- Skrypnyk
- Sliusar
- Sliusarenko
- Snihur
- Solovianenko
- Somko
- Soroka
- Sribnyi
- Stakhovskyi
- Stankevych
- Starodubets
- Stasiuk
- Stefaniv
- Stefanyk
- Stelmakh
- Stepanenko
- Stepanets
- Stepovyi
- Stetsenko
- Stetsiuk
- Stetskiv
- Stetsko
- Stoliar
- Storozh
- Storozhuk
- Stus
- Sverstiuk
- Svidzinskyi
- Sych
- Sydorchuk
- Sydorenko
- Symonenko
- Sytnyk
T: 28 names
- Tarasiuk
- Tataryn
- Tereshchenko
- Terletskyi
- Teteria
- Tiahnyriadno
- Tiutiunnyk
- Tkach
- Tkachenko
- Tkachuk
- Tretiak
- Triasylo
- Trokhymchuk
- Trokhymenko
- Tryhub
- Tsvirkun
- Tsyhan
- Tsymbal
- Tsymbaliuk
- Turchyn
- Tychyna
- Tymchenko
- Tymchuk
- Tymchyshyn
- Tymkiv
- Tymoshenko
- Tyshchenko
- Tyshkevych
U: 3 names
- Ubyivovk
- Ukrainets
- Ustymenko
V: 21 names
- Vashchuk
- Vasylenko
- Vasyliuk
- Vasylyshyn
- Verba
- Vernadskyi
- Vernydub
- Vernyhora
- Vinhranovskyi
- Vintoniak
- Vivchar
- Vlasenko
- Vlasiuk
- Voitenko
- Voloshyn
- Volynets
- Vovk
- Vynnychuk
- Vynnyk
- Vyshnevetskyi
- Vyshnevskyi
Y: 19 names
- Yakovenko
- Yakovets
- Yakymenko
- Yakymiv
- Yanovskyi
- Yarmolenko
- Yaroshenko
- Yashchuk
- Yatskiv
- Yatsko
- Yatsyk
- Yatsyshyn
- Yavorskyi
- Yeremenko
- Yevtushenko
- Yurchak
- Yurchenko
- Yurchyshyn
- Yurkevych