Last name origin & meaning: Finnish: habitational name from a farmstead or village so named,
from huhta ‘glade’, ‘forest clearing’, commonly denoting an
area of land that had been cleared of forest in order to produce
farmland. Compare Aho. Villages called Huhta, Huhtaa, and Huhti
are found in western Finland. In some cases the American surname may
be a shortened form of some other name formed with this word (for
example, see Huhtala).
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