Kuusisto Family History

Finnish: habitational name from farms so named from kuusi ‘spruce’ + the locative or collective suffix -sto thus referring to ‘grove of spruce trees’. Established as a hereditary surname since the 19th century in southern Ostrobothnia and southwestern Finland.

Adopted also during the name-changing campaigns of the early 20th century mainly by Finns with Swedish surnames especially those formed with gran ‘spruce’ such as Granholm.