Lampinen

Lampinen is a Finnish surname. As of 2013, there were almost 10,000 people registered in Finland with this surname.^[1] 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.^[2] Notable people with the surname include:

• Mari Lampinen (born 1971), Finnish biathlete
• Petteri Lampinen (born 1975), Finnish bandy player
• Simo Lampinen (born 1943), Finnish rally driver