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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : ornamental name from koski ‘waterfall’, ‘rapids’ + the local suffix -la. In many cases it was probably adopted as an equivalent of Swedish Forström (see Forstrom), Grönfors, Stenfors, etc.

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