Kamppi

Variously from Swedish kamp (“(battle)field”), dialectal Swedish kamb (“hillside”) and Finnish kamppi (“wolverine”) (dialectal), probably through place names. The place in Helsinki is specifically from Swedish kamp in reference to a field used for military training that once stood in the area.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmpːi/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmpːi
• Hyphenation^(key): Kamp‧pi

Kamppi

1. (rare) a Finnish surname
2. A neighborhood of Helsinki

• In 2010 there were about 150 Finnish citizens with this surname and more than 10% of them lived in the municipality of Luvia.

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.

• The surname Kamppi belongs to 151 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• kimppa, kimppa-