100 найвідоміших прізвищ в Україні: походження, особливості творення та регіональне поширення

The article is devoted to the study of the origin, features of creation, regional distribution of the 100 most popular surnames in Ukraine. It was established that almost every second surname from the first hundred of the most popular surnames in Ukraine are surnames derived from the names (48 surnames in total), including 47 from the bases of male names and only one from the female. It is also noted that the number of occupational names is half that of names derived from first names (24 surnames in total), but there are much more surnames derived from such names. Four surnames come from the names: Ponomar (a variant of the word palamar) (Ponomarenko, Palamarchuk), dyak (Dyachenko), pіp (Popova). Three surnames come from six names: shvets (shoemaker) (Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shvets), кoval (farrier) (Kovalenko, Kovalchuk, Koval), вondar (cooper) (Bondarenko, Bondar, Bondarchuk), tkach (weaver) (Tkachenko, Tkachuk, Tkach), kravets (tailor) (Kravchenko, Kravchuk, Kravets), gonchar (potter) (Goncharenko, Gonchar, Goncharuk), two ⸺ from the name of the melnuk (miller) (Melnuk, Melnuchuk). Only four names by occupation come from one surname: oliynyk ⸺ Oleynyk, kushnir ⸺ Kushnir, kolesnyk ⸺ Kolesnek, shapka + valyat ⸺ Shapoval. The analysis of the actual material shows that the most common way of creating surnames is the suffix (73 surnames). Most often, suffixes -enk- are used to create new surnames (49 cases), -uk(-yuk) (14 cases) and -chuk (5 cases). Three female surnames are formed in an inflectional way from the bases of male surnames with the help of the inflection -a: Ivanov-a, Popov-a, Chorna.