Lempi

Where Lempi comes from

Lempi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,023 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #878
    14 babies named Lempi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1900
    Lempi Jääskeläinen born
    Finnish writer
  4. 1900
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,723.
  5. 1901
    Lempi Ikävalko born
    Finnish writer and actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lempi Ikävalko · Finnish writer and actor, 1901–1994
  • Lempi Jääskeläinen · Finnish writer, 1900–1964
  • Lempi Tuomi · Finnish seamstress and politician, 1882–1958
  • Lempi Rothovius · Finnish supercentenarian, 1887–2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.