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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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