Laakso
See also: laakso
English edit
Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Laakso (plural Laaksos)
- A surname from Finnish.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Laakso is the 36788th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 607 individuals. Laakso is most common among White (95.55%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Laakso”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 373.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From laakso (“valley”). The surname is sometimes transferred from place names, but most families chose it at the turn of the 20th century because of its meaning.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Laakso
- a Finnish surname from landscape
- Any of a number of small places in Finland.
- A neighborhood of Helsinki
Declension edit
Inflection of Laakso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Laakso | Laaksot | ||
genitive | Laakson | Laaksojen | ||
partitive | Laaksoa | Laaksoja | ||
illative | Laaksoon | Laaksoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Laakso | Laaksot | ||
accusative | nom. | Laakso | Laaksot | |
gen. | Laakson | |||
genitive | Laakson | Laaksojen | ||
partitive | Laaksoa | Laaksoja | ||
inessive | Laaksossa | Laaksoissa | ||
elative | Laaksosta | Laaksoista | ||
illative | Laaksoon | Laaksoihin | ||
adessive | Laaksolla | Laaksoilla | ||
ablative | Laaksolta | Laaksoilta | ||
allative | Laaksolle | Laaksoille | ||
essive | Laaksona | Laaksoina | ||
translative | Laaksoksi | Laaksoiksi | ||
abessive | Laaksotta | Laaksoitta | ||
instructive | — | Laaksoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
Related terms edit
Statistics edit
- Laakso is the 48th most common surname in Finland, belonging to 8,630 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Further reading edit
Laakso (täsmennyssivu) on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi