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Kallio.

a Finnish surname from landscape

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈkɑlːio/[ˈkɑ̝lːio̞]
  1. a Finnish surname from landscape

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

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  3. Any of a number of small places in Finland. a neighborhood of Helsinki

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Where this word comes from

From kallio (“rock”). As a surname, attested already since the 15th century, but also popular in the Fennicization of surnames in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Finnish name Kallio for the neighborhood in Helsinki (which in Swedish is/was named Berghäll, after a villa that once stood in the area) was coined in the late 19th century.

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