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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish (Lepistö) : from the plural of leppä ‘alder tree’ + the locative or collective ending -sto. It is recorded from the 15th century in north-central and eastern Finland, and was later adopted as an ornamental name during the name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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