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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : in eastern Finland, from the Karelian personal name Hali, earlier Fali (a derivative of the Russian Orthodox name Falalei, from Greek Thalelaios) + the common surname ending -nen.
  • Finnish : in western Finland, it is probably from a Germanic personal name containing the element Hal-.

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