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Kerkelä
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Finnish
Etymology
From a fi gem anthroponym (compare ofs Gerke, de Gehrke) fi -la toponym. The current surname was originally a farm name in Kemijärvi, but the surname is attested also from Southern Finland in the Middle Ages.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Finnish
Declension
Kerkel ä
Statistics
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