Lampinen is a Finnish surname. As of 2013, there were almost 10,000 people registered in Finland with this surname. It is a derivation of the Finnish word "lampi" (English: pond), that also occurs as surname in Finland, and it means one who lives by a pond. As a surname it appears both as an old, traditional surname in Eastern Finland and as a new, recently adopted surname in Western Finland.
Notable people
Notable people with the surname Lampinen include:
References
Lampinen Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA