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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Finnish : ethnic name from Finnish Suomi ‘Finland’. At one time this term denoted only southwestern Finland, but nowadays it is the national name for the whole of Finland. As a surname it is mostly an adopted name during the names conversion movement at the beginning of the 20th century.

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