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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : habitational name from a farmstead so named, from the personal name Esko (Finnish form of Scandinavian Eskil (see Eskildsen) + the local suffix -la). In some cases the surname is a later ornamental adoption; it occurs chiefly in western Finland.

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