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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish (Heikkilä) : from the personal name Heikki (derived from German Heinrich; see Henry) + the local ending -la, denoting someone from a household headed by someone called Heikki. This personal name was very popular during the Middle Ages, St. Henry being the patron saint of Finland.

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