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List of surnames in Ukraine.This list is also to include surnames that did not originate in Ukraine as there are people living in the country with numerous ethnic backgrounds, and, therefore, surnames, from all over Europe and Asia.
The surnames with the suffix -enko are the most known and common Ukrainian surnames. Due to migration and deportations of Ukrainians during the history, they are also present in Belarus and Russia , especially in the Kuban region , where many ethnic Ukrainians historically lived.
In East Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian) the same system of name suffixes can be used to express several meanings. One of the most common is the patronymic. Instead of a secondary "middle" given name, people identify themselves with their given and family name and patronymic, a name based on their father's given name.
Common places used as surnames include Dibra, Laci, Shkodra, Prishtina, Delvina, Koroveshi and Permeti, as well as the famous Frasheri surname of the Frasheri family. Additionally common some names indicate regional origins: Gega/Gegaj (for one of Gheg origin ), Tosku/Toskaj (signifying Tosk origin ) and Chami (for Cham origin ).
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, -off was a common transliteration of -ov for Russian family names in foreign languages such as French and German (like for the Smirnoff and the Davidoff brands). Surnames of Ukrainian and Belarusian origin use the suffixes -ко (-ko), -ук (-uk), and -ич (-ych).
Boyko or Boiko (Cyrillic: Бойко, Polish: Bojko) is one of the most common surnames in Ukraine, which is also widespread in countries such as Russia, Canada, United States and other lands with a history of immigration from Ukraine. It is also found in South Slavic countries, as a form of the name Бојан/Bojan (Boyan).
Ukrainian names are given names that originated in Ukraine. In addition to the given names , Ukrainians also have patronymic and family names (surnames; see: Ukrainian surnames ). Ukrainian given names
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