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Rantala.

a Finnish surname from landscape

7 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈrɑntɑlɑ/[ˈrɑ̝n̪t̪ɑ̝lɑ̝]
  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 ranta (“shore”) + -la. As a surname (from place names), attested since the 15th century, but also commonly adopted during the Fennicization of surnames in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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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.