Släkthistoria för Kilpela
Kilpela Vad efternamn betyder
Finnish (Kilpelä): habitational name from farms so named from kilpi ‘shield’ also ‘water lily especially lily pad’ (the last sense is used particularly in the names of ponds and lakes and the names of dwellings near them) + the locative suffix -lä. Established as a hereditary surname in northern Finland where kilpi has the sense ‘the wide part of the elk or reindeer horn’ and in western Finland.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
