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Hietala.

a Finnish surname from landscape

7 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈhie̯tɑlɑ/[ˈhie̞̯t̪ɑ̝lɑ̝]

  1. a Finnish surname from landscape

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  2. Any of a number of small places in Finland.

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Where this word comes from

From hieta (“fine sand”) + -la. The surname is partly from place names, partly adopted from the Fennicization of surnames, and the oldest Eastern Finnish surnames (around Viipuri) might be indirectly from Hietanen, Hietamies.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.