Heikkilä

For the district and neighborhood in Jyväskylä, see Districts of Jyväskylä.

Heikkilä is a surname originating in Finland.[1] The name is derived from Heikki, the Finnish equivalent of the Scandinavian name Henrik and the Germanic Henry, plus the suffix -lä, a patronymic indicating a child of a household headed by a man named Heikki. Among Finnish immigrants to North America, the name was sometimes Anglicized as Heikkila.[1]

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 95.2% of all known bearers of the surname Heikkilä were residents of Finland and 3.6% of Sweden.

In Finland, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:378) in the following regions:[2]

Notable people

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