Position:Home>Genealogy> Are the surnames Oserenko and Osherenko related and pronounced the same?

Question:I think they are both from Koseletz, Ukraine. Possibly, only one is, or one is the other, just spelled differently.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think they are both from Koseletz, Ukraine. Possibly, only one is, or one is the other, just spelled differently.

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They could be the same name, or different. It depends on the Cyrillic, and can not be determined from the English translation directly.

Oserenko (Осеренко in Cyrillic) has "c" as the second letter (s sound - ah-ser-EN-ko).

Osherenko can be from two different Ukrainian names:

Osherenko can be Осхеренко (separate s+h - ah-s-hair-EN-ko) which is the linguistic equivalent of Oserenko in Ukrainian.

Osherenko cna also be Ошеренко, which has "ш" as the second letter (sh sound - ah-sher-EN-ko), which is linguistically a different name than Oserenko.

This was verified in the official translation book used by Ukrainian officials (passports, birth records, etc) when translating surnames and patronymic names from Russian to Ukrainian.

If you have access to a birth record, you could find out for sure. It is, however, a man's surname in Ukrainian.

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Since both your sources are in Latin letters, you could assume they are the "same". It would not be an uncommon translation "error" from Cyrillic to Latin. Report It

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