Given name & surname
Lempi
“love”
Lempi is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “love.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “love.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lempi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 367
- 0 boys · 367 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 23 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 7 in 1927. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1915.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lempi’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Lempi has a conventional equivalent in the English form Charity.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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