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kantola Name Meaning and History

Finnish: from kanto, kanta ‘stump’, ‘base’ + the local suffix -la, applied originally as a topographic name or a habitational name from a farm so named. Later, during the name conversion movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was adopted as an ornamental name by Finns bearing Swedish surnames.

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Distribution of kantola Families in the US in 1920
Number of kantola families
 7-12
 3-6
 1-2
 0
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