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Kilpelä
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Finnish
Etymology
fi kilpi -lä toponym; compare fi Kilpi, fi Kilpinen.
fi Kilpelä is primarily found in Kainuu and North Ostrobothnia, while the variant fi Kilpeläinen is found mainly in Savonia and Karelia, and fi Kilpiäinen in Karelia. Forms and variants of this surname were not consistently distinguished in the 16th century, suggesting that they had not become established surnames by then, only later.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Finnish
Declension
Kilpel ä
Derived terms
fi Kilpeläinen
Statistics
dvv_20250813 211
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