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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : habitational name, from a farm so named from the personal name Paavo, vernacular form of Paulus (see Paul), + the locative ending -la. Both the farm name and the surname can be traced back to the 15th century. The surname occurs chiefly in western Finland.

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