Girl · Finnish
Lempi
Say it: LEM-pee
Meaning
From Finnish lempi 'love'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
One of the Finnish word names adopted around 1900, when Finns increasingly chose native names.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 367 babies given this name since 1893
- At its height in 1899, about 1 in 16,600 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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