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From the name of a nearby hill, *Rääkkyvaara (from rääkyä, rääkkyä, in reference to bird sounds). When taken as the name of the village, vaara was replaced with the suffix -lä.[1]
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Rääkkylä" is Rääkkylässä.
^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN