Given name
Impi
“virgin, young girl”
Impi is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Impi goes back to a word meaning “virgin, young girl.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1904. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Impi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 0 boys · 40 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1921. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1917.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Impi’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Impi has a related form in Immi.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Impi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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