Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish, Asturian-Leonese, and Galician : habitational name from any of the numerous places so named, from busto ‘meadow’, ‘willow’. In Asturian-Leonese, this name is a Castilianized form of Asturian-Leonese Bustu, of the same origin. Busto (and its equivalent Bustu) is one of the commonest place names of northwestern Iberia.