Pesola Family History
Pesola Name Meaning
Italian: nickname from pesolo ‘light suspended hanging soft’. This surname is found mainly in Apulia where many surnames have the ending -ola. Finnish: habitational name from farms so named from the root of the surname Pesonen (from the personal name Peso a Karelian vernacular form of Russian Pyotr; see Peter ) + the locative suffix -la. Established as an inherited surname since the 19th century in Ostrobothnia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022