Village names

That Virola/Apuin means that Virola is a village and Apuin is a "house" in village Virola.Usually "house" was surname.
Apuin is an old form of writing Apunen.

But why did so many villages have a house named Apuin?
How did houses get their name?

Is it maybe as in swedish telling the kind of house that belonged to the family?

I don't think so.
The baptism records about that time period are only just starting to use surnames instead of patronyms and there is an obvious link in many cases where you can see the surname is being adopted from the farm name which has been constant for generations back.
This is exactly the case with my Apunen family members.
The origins of names has always interested me which is why i am curious about why the farm would be called Apuin.
The interesting point is that with more than one farm named Apuin in the region there seem to be more than one Apunen families which aren't related to each other. Which is good to know because more than one Apunen married a girl named Apunen too.

ah, thank you here! my surname in Twente, Holland, is also originally from a farmershouse and now I understand why it was so difficult to find more people with that name. I always used to say: Oh, you know someone with my surname? And does s/he has auburn, red hair? Yeas? Ok, then It might be a brother, my only sister, my few nephews and some nieces, but when his/her christian name is like Herman or Hermania for women, it sure MUST be of the same DNA. that is my most important driven not to use my father's father's fathers u.s.w. name on a googlebare platform like this with threads everyone, wheter is was my boss or my lover, my personal nor my nep-children, can draw conclusions about their characters and capitals.

thank you again, geni-staff for making such a wonderful way of learning about you DNA. -jMu-

In your case there is a village named "Apula" and it's sure that this village name was "born" because of Apunen - familyname. It was a place where first lived Apunen-families.
In my case the same thing with surname Tontti woud be "Tonttila". In finnish-language we understand that it is the place where Tontti-named peoples live.
But village names are not always surnames. Noboby had surname Tounaa or Raivattala in Hiitola.

I am sad to hear that, so the chicken came before the egg in Finland.
I was hoping to be close to understanding the origin of the name but now it seems i was looking at it backwards.
Still there must have been Apunen around for a long time for the village to be named after them. Perhaps there was a Tounen family in Tounaa so long ago that there is no documents with that name.
Just dreaming.

"Apuin": It seems like "Apuin" / "Apula" is a village named from the people with surname "Apunen" who moved to this place. In Finland and Sweden there are more such small villages named from people moved from another places and they gave new names to the villages there they settled down. Kari Tontti has the right explanation.

So in summary:
Apula is the village where the Apuin/Apuinen/Apunen family is from.
When a boy from the family left the village to start a new farm in another village that new farm would be named Apuin (eg Virola Apuin).
Where the name Apuin originally comes from no one knows.

Don t give up. I had a equal problem to find my 9th great grandfather Per Nilsson Kolari . With help from other Geni users we found this person and his profile is now on Geni.