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jokela Name Meaning and History

Finnish: from joki ‘river’ + the local suffix -la, originally a habitational name from any of various farmsteads named for their riverside location. During the name conversion movement from Swedish in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was adopted as a replacement by Finns with Swedish surnames, especially those containing Swedish ström ‘river’.

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Distribution of jokela Families in the US in 1920
Number of jokela families
 11-19
 4-10		 1-3
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my relatives beth [fladeland] whitaker 7
Jokela Family from Minnesota JackieAlto 0
Jokela-Nickolai Jodi825 0
Sulo Armas Jokela (2/11/1889-2/12/1923) JoshHalko 1
Jokela Kotitjarvi/Jarvi Reunion AliciaKMarshall 0
Jokela family jmikaelj 4
Jokela Anderson Sommers Juha01 0
Edwin Armas [Jokela] Oja, 1921-2001 stonecoldead 0
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