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Kuisma

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Finnish

Etymology

Karelian form of the Russian saint's name Кузьма́ (Kuzʹmá), equivalent to English Cosmo, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkui̯smɑ/, [ˈkui̯s̠mɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -uismɑ
  • Syllabification(key): Kuis‧ma
  • Hyphenation(key): Kuis‧ma

Proper noun

Kuisma

  1. a Finnish surname originating as a patronymic
  2. a male given name
    • 1897, Juhani Aho, Panu, WSOY, published 1947, page 26:
      Usein laski Kuisma hänen kanssaan tuollaista todensekaista leikkiä, usein kärtti hän sanoja ja taikoja, mutta ei ollut Jouko kuitenkaan varma siitä, uskoisko se niihin, vai pitikö vain pilkkanaan sekä isää että häntä ja kaikkia, jotka taikoihin luottivat.
      Kuisma would often kid him with these half-real stories, often beg for words and spells, but Jouko was still not sure whether he would believe them, or whether he was just ridiculing both father and him and everyone else who believed in magic.

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

Statistics

  • Kuisma is the 545th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 367 male individuals (and as a middle name to 132 more), and also belongs to 7 female individuals (and as a middle name to 8 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
  • Kuisma is the 301st most common surname in Finland, belonging to 2,626 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

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