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The hakala Surname

hakala Name Meaning and History

Finnish: topographic or ornamental name from haka ‘pasture’, ‘paddock’ + the local suffix -la. Haka is a common element of Finnish place names. It was widely adopted as an ornamental surname during the name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in western Finland.

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Distribution of hakala Families in the US in 1920
Number of hakala families
 32-62
 11-31
 1-10
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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