{{Infobox surname |name=Zakharenko<br />Захаренко<br />Захаранка |pronunciation={{IPA|ru|ˈzaxaˌreŋ̊ko}} |meaning=God Has Remembered |region=Russia, Ukraine, Belarus |languageorigin=Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian from Hebrew |variant=Zakharov, Zakharchenko, Zacharias, Zakaryan |footnotes=<ref name="fb">{{cite web |url= https://forebears.io/surnames/zakharenko |title= Zakharenko Surname Distribution |website= forebears.io |access-date= August 18, 2017 |quote= Approximately 17,372 people bear this surname. Most prevalent in: Russia; Highest density in: Belarus.}}</ref><ref name="ul">{{cite web |url= http://www.ufolog.ru/names/order/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE |title= Происхождение фамилии Захаренко |website= ufolog.ru |access-date= August 18, 2017 |quote= Фамилия Захаренко образована от крестильного имени Захарий (в переводе с древнееврейского – «радость; память Божия»). |language= ru |archive-date= August 18, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170818090300/http://www.ufolog.ru/names/order/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE |url-status= dead }} (The surname Zakharenko is formed from the baptismal name Zachary (translated from Hebrew as "joy, the memory of God")</ref><ref name="af">{{cite web |url= https://www.analizfamilii.ru/Zakharenko/proishozhdenie.html |title= Происхождение фамилии Захаренко |website= analizfamilii.ru |access-date= August 18, 2017 |quote= Фамилия Захаренко принадлежит к популярному типу русских фамилий, образованных от крестильных имен.|language= ru}} (The surname Zakharenko belongs to the popular type of Russian surnames formed from baptismal names.)</ref> }} '''Zakharenko''' ({{langx|be|Захаранка}}, {{langx|uk|Захаренко}}, {{langx|ru|Заха́ренко}}; from the given names Zakhar (Захар), Zakhary (Захарий/Захарій), or Zakhariya (Захария/Захарія)—all East Slavic variants of the Hebrew name Zechariah—by adding the (primarily Ukrainian) Slavic diminutive suffix ''-енко'' (''-enko'')<ref> {{cite book | last1=Hanks | first1=Patrick | author-link1=Patrick Hanks | last2=Hodges | first2=Flavia | title=A Dictionary of Surnames | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6E7WAAAAMAAJ | location=Oxford | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-date=1988 | page=xli | isbn=9780192115928 | access-date=2018-09-02 | quote=A typical Ukrainian surname ending is -''enko'', a diminutive suffix attached for the most part to given names, but also to nicknames and occupational names. }} </ref> with the meaning "young", "small", "son of")<ref name="ul" /><ref name="af" /> is a Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian masculine surname.<ref name="fb" /><ref name="ul" /><ref name="af" /><ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.namespedia.com/details/Zakharenko |title= Statistics and meaning of name Zakharenko |access-date= August 18, 2017 |work= namespedia.com |quote= Surname Zakharenko is used at least 1701 times in at least 12 countries.}}</ref> Notable people with this surname include: *Andrei Zakharenko (born 1979), Russian association football player *Sergey Zakharenko (born 1974), Belarusian skier *Yury Zacharanka (''Zakharenko'') (1952–1999?), Belarusian military officer and politician *Natalie Wood (''born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko'', 1938), American actress
==See also== *Zakharenkov *Zakharchenko
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Category:Russian-language surnames Category:Belarusian-language surnames Category:Ukrainian-language surnames Category:Surnames derived from given names Category:Patronymic surnames