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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : unexplained. This name is found mainly in Apulia, where many surnames have the ending -ola.
  • Finnish : from the personal name Peso, a vernacular pet form of Petrus (see Peter) + the local suffix -la. The surname is recorded in central-western Finland from the 16th century onward.

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