Lempi

Girls' name

Love

Lempi has been given to 367 babies in the U.S. since 1893. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Lempi, 1927

1 in 331,000

Lempi over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lempi: meaning, origin, and history

Love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lempi means

Lempi means “love”, associated with lempi.

Origin, language, and formation

Lempi is used in Finnish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Lempi is pronounced /ˈlempi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 367 girls were recorded with the name Lempi between 1893 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1915; its best national rank was #894 in 1899.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lempi?

Lempi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927: 1 in 331,000; 7 of 2,319,281 births
Among girls only: 1 in 170,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1927: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 229,659 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lempi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1927 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,659 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lempi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lempis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lempi was born before 1911 — so the typical Lempi is around 114 today.

Median birth year: 1911; About 114 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 39.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 79.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Lempi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (23)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #894; 1899

Spellings of Lempi

Lempi is not the most common spelling — Lexi is, with 32.2% against Lempi's 0.42%.

Lexi32.2%28,115
Remi26.2%22,881
Demi17.0%14,869
Lesli6.6%5,799
Emi5.0%4,360
Emmi2.7%2,335
Leni2.2%1,935
Tempie1.9%1,681

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lempi is used

Across 1910–2025, Lempi was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 167,472 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Michigan1 in 100,000
2Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lempi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lempi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #894; 1899
Peak year: 1915; 23 that year
First recorded: 1893
Last recorded: 1927
All-time count: 367
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lempi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Lemon Lema Lemma Lemmie Lemya Lemia Lemmy Lemoyne Impi Lemaya Lemi Lemisha Lemonica

Sibling names for Lempi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Era Mayme Artie Alpha Hettie Catharine Cecil

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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