Ukraine

Gauk, R. Z. (1961). Ukrainian Christian names : a dictionary Orma.

Holutiak-Hallick, S. P. (1972). Orthographic variations of Ukrainian surnames in Western Pennsylvania. Names, (20), 193-199.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Evaluates 1100 Ukrainian surnames and their various American English transformations over a period of 3 generations (1907-1970). Many examples such as Strus becoming Struce, Struss or Strus. 7 refs."

Holutiak-Hallick, S. P. (1994). Dictionary of Ukrainian surnames in the United States. New York: Slavic Onomastic Research Group.
Notes: [493pp]
Abstract: ed lawson "analyzes 12,351 surnames with 15,427 variations in American English"

Hursky, J. P. (1960). The origin of patronymic surnames in Ukrainian. Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, (8), 169-190.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Systematic presentation of the various types of surname going back to the 10th century; also includes nicknames and explanation of suffixes. Map. 82 refs."

Hursky, J. P. (1971). Phonetic peculiarities in Ukrainian patronymic surnames of the fourteenth-seventeenth centuries. Names, (19), 262-267.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Most of the changes associated with surnames conformed with those changes in the Ukrainian langiuage system as a whole"

Pauls, J. P. (1960). Surnames of Soviet Russian and other communist celebrities. Names, (8), 220-239.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Gives surname meanings of 240 Eastern bloc leaders who appear frequently in the press. Countries included are Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Examples include: Brezhnev (‘cautious’), Shostakovich (‘sixth male child’ or ‘one who has fingers’), and Lysenko ‘bald-headed’."

Picknicki, J. (1990). The origin and meaning of Ukrainian surnames. ((Spring)), 3-.

Radion, S. (1981). Dictionary of Ukrainian surnames in Australia. Melbourne: Academia Scientiarum Mohylo-Mazepiana Ukrainensis.

Rudnyts’kyi, Y. B. (1982). An etymological dictionary of the Ukrainian language. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
Notes: Vol1 -968p : Vol. 2 -656p.
Abstract: Includes many personal names such as Gregor and derivatives in various Slavic languages. Author estimates over 3,000 first names and surnames included. Hundreds of refs, most non-English." Abstract source: ed lawson)

Slavutych, Y. (1962). Ukrainian surnames in -enko. Names, (10), 181-186.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Historical background. Classification with copious examples, as Ivanenko, son of Ivan (patronymic); Kravcenko, son of Kravec ‘tailor’ (occupational); Usenko, son of a man with a long moustach (personal characteristic). 8 refs."

Struminskkyj, B. (1977). Surnames in -kevic, -xevic, -gevic. Names, 25, 119-123.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Consideration of the presence of surnames ending in -kevic in Lithuania, White Russia, Lithuanian Ukraine, and Polish settlements in the 15th and 16th centuries"

Triiniak, I. I. I. I. (2005). Slovnyk ukraïnskykh imenVyd-vo "Dovira".

Vlasenko Bojcun, A. (1975). Ukrainian surnames. America, (2-9 Oct).
Notes: Supplement to Ameryka

Wolnicz-Pawlowska, E. (1980). Eighteenth century Ukrainian anthroponomy. Onoma, (24), 75-78.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Abstract of a Phd thesis based on 7000 male personal names in Ruthenia, part of Poland. 50% of names are patronymics, Punio and Puniewicz; 34% were based on individual characteristics, Bavan (lamb). Some Polish material. 6 refs"

Zyla, W. T. (1966). Ukrainian anthroponomy in the Kharkov register of 1660. Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (pp. 596-604). The Hague: Mouton.
Abstract: Lawson1: "The Kharkov Register included boiar (boyar) children, regimental Cossacks, townsfolk, and peasants. Their surnames are of 6 types: (1) Relationship (patronymics) (2) local (geographical, nationality) (3) Occupation or office (4) Nicknames (5) Forign origin and (6) Doubtful of unexplaines. 11 refs."

Zyla, W. T. (1970). Adjectival surnames in the Kharkov reister of 1660. Names, (18), 89-96.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Indicates that by 1660 all classes had surnames. Considers the semantic connection between names ending in -skyj and -ckyj and toponyms and hydronyms. 14 refs"

Zyla, W. T. (1975). Kharkiv Register of 1660 : Surname derivation from place names. Vol. 1975. Berichte des XVII Internationaler Kongresses für Namenforschung (pp. 495-506).
Abstract: Lawson1: "The Kharkiv (Kharkov) Register shows that all classes of society had surnames. These surnames were derived from many sources. Among them were toponyms, hydronyms and ethonyms. Many examples. 21 refs."

[page last updated: July 25, 2008]