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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : from hauta ‘pit’ + the local suffix -la, either a topographic name or a habitational name from a farmstead so named, with reference to a nearby storage pit, cooking pit, tar pit, charcoal-burning pit, or animal trap. This is a common surname in Ostrobothnia.

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