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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : topographic name from joki ‘river’. During the name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Joki was adopted as a replacement by Finns with Swedish surnames, especially those containing Swedish ström ‘river’. In some cases it may have been adopted as a topographic name by someone who lived by a river.

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