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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish (Hätälä) : of uncertain origin; perhaps from a nickname based on hätä ‘hurry’, ‘scurry’ + the local suffix -la. Alternatively, the element hätä may be derived from a foreign personal name.

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