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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : habitational name for someone who lived or worked at a farm named Anttila, from the personal name Antti (a vernacular form of Andreas) + the local suffix -la. This is one of the most common farm names in Finland; consequently, the surname is also very frequent.

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