Last name origin & meaning: Finnish: from hieta ‘sand’ + the local suffix -la,
originally a habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads and
villages so named, especially in western Finland; later, during the
name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was
also adopted as an ornamental name, especially by Finns bearing
Swedish names containing the element sand. It is now found
throughout Finland.
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