Kemppi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkemppi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kemppi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Either from Old Swedish kæmpe (“soldier”) or in addition from kemppi (“fly, gnat”).
- FIFinland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 117K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kemppi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,601 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кемппи in FI Finland, RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Swedishkæmpe“soldier”(measured from records)
- Old Swedish rootkemppi“fly“fly, gnat”(measured from records)
Either from Old Swedish kæmpe (“soldier”) or in addition from kemppi (“fly, gnat”).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kemppi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
2,601 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling kemppi. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pekka Kemppib. 1887FIFinnish journalist and politician (1887-1957)
- Armas Kemppib. 1893FIFinnish military personnel
- Antti Kemppib. 1893FIFinnish politician
- Usko Kemppib. 1907FIFinnish composer, lyricist, writer and screenwriter (1907–1994)
- Raiku Kemppib. 1928FIFinnish actress
- Jarkko Kemppib. 1970FIFinnish historian
- Hilkka Kemppib. 1988FIFinnish politician
- Miikka Kemppib. 1993FIFinnish pro gamer
- Juliette Kemppib. 1994FIFinnish floorball player and association football player
- Samuli KemppiFIFinnish techno musician and DJ
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.6K | #767 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 87 | #8,032 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #82,322 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #205,398 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kemppi mean, and where does it come from?
- Either from Old Swedish kæmpe (“soldier”) or in addition from kemppi (“fly, gnat”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kemppi?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkemppi/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Kemppi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Kemppi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled кемппи.
- Where is Kemppi most common?
- Kemppi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kemppi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,601 people named Kemppi, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kemppi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kemppiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kemppi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.