Given name & surname · also Swedish
Karppinen
“a trader of the Hanseatic League; a German”
Karppinen is a given name from Old Swedish, ultimately from Russian. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Karppinen goes back to a word meaning “a trader of the Hanseatic League; a German.”
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Where it comes from
Karppinen comes from Old Swedish, and ultimately from Russian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Karppinen’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Karppinen as a surname has a related form in Karppi.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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