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Lempi

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See also: lempi

Finnish

Etymology

Coined in the 19th century from lempi (love); comparable to English Charity.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlempi/, [ˈle̞mpi]
  • Rhymes: -empi
  • Syllabification(key): Lem‧pi
  • Hyphenation(key): Lem‧pi

Proper noun

Lempi

  1. a female given name
    • 1979 Tuula Saarto, Tulen lapset, auringon lapset, Otava, ISBN 951-1-0544-2, page 69:
      Toiset olivat joskus―hän muisti sen nyt, selällään maaten, sormet kulkien pitkin pelkäksi tunnoksi muuttunutta pintaa―pilkanneet häntä hänen nimestään ja hän oli ajatellut: Lempi, se tarkoittaa että Roope rakasti minun äitiäni eniten...
      The others had once―she recalled it now, lying on her back, with her fingers running over a surface now only palpable―mocked her for her name and she had thought: Lempi, it means that Roope loved my mother the most...
    • 2016, Minna Rytisalo, Lempi, Gummerus, →ISBN, page 20:
      Mikä on kauppiaantyttären nimi, kun en tiennyt, se piti kysyä ja jo se pisti vähän hymyilyttämään. Painoit päätäsi, katsoit ripsiesi alta, poskissasi kuopat kun sanoit hiljaa: Lempi.
      Lempi niin kuin lempeä, lauha, lämmin, ajattelin, ja kuulin sen kaiken äänestäsi.
      What was the name of the trader's daughter, when I didn't know, I had to ask and that already made me smile a bit. You pushed your head down, looked at me under your eyelashes, with pits in your cheeks as you quietly said: Lempi.
      Lempi, like gentle, mild, warm, I thought, and could hear all that in your voice.

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Declined differently from the common noun lempi.

Statistics

  • Lempi is the 450th (tied with 1 other name) most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 872 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,305 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

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