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Probably from the name of the nearby island Liperinsalo, the name of which might derive from liperi(“slick, glib”) (for which see lipeä, lipevä) as a byname/nickname for a person after which the island may have been named.[1]
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Liperi" is Liperissä.
^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN