Koskela Family History
Koskela Name Meaning
Finnish: habitational name from farms so named from koski ‘rapids’ + the locative suffix -la. Adopted also as an ornamental name in the name-changing campaigns of the early 20th century mainly to replace Swedish surnames some of them such as Forsström (see Forsstrom ) and Grönfors containing the word fors ‘rapids waterfall’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022