First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Finnish: habitational name from a farmstead so called, probably named with western Finnish dialect hako ‘spruce branch’ + the local ending -la. However, in some cases, the element Hako may be from a Germanic personal name.