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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : from harju ‘ridge’, either a topographic name from any of the numerous farmsteads named with this word, or a later ornamental adoption, one of the numerous names taken from the vocabulary of the natural landscape by Finns with Swedish names during the name conversion movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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