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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish (Pietilä) : habitational name from a farm named with the personal name Pieti (Finnish form of Peter) + the local ending -la. The surname occurs mainly in western and northern Finland, where it is first recorded in the 16th century.

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