Comments for the name Impi

I have to admit, I laughed when I heard this name. It seems like an odd thing to name your daughter. Unless you REALLY want her to be a nun, then it sort of stops being applicable at a certain point.

Virgin, hmm. *cough* No pressure here...

Hey, this is very old name. I haven't never met or even heard about anyone called Impi, and I don't think that any parents would even name their daughter to it, so just leave the name alone and play fair.

Very impish, which gives me a different image than "virgin" entirely. The virgin comments above are unnecessary though, do you cough at Virginia?

Mwahahaha, I've never actually heard of a woman named Impi, and I seriously doubt there are any alive, or have been in ages. Maybe this name was used a couple of hundred years ago. No one would use this word to describe a virgin anymore; it even sounds ridiculous in poetic language. I bet many people wouldn't even understand what it means. The word only exists in the word 'immenkalvo' for 'hymen' in modern Finnish, and it literally means ''membrane of a virgin''. Maybe most people have forgotten that 'immen' is the genitive form of this silly little obsolete word that very, very misogynous parents who wanted their daughter to remain a virgin forever would use a long, long time ago, in the dark ages of pre-civilization and some respect for women.

I agree with the woman who made the above comment. This name is ugly, dated, and misogynous to be using. It also sounds like "imp". I can see why no one in Finland is named Impi anymore. Ironically, I don't have a problem with Virginia, which has the same meaning, since most parents using it probably don't have such sexist intentions.

Actually, the name Impi is still used in Finland. During the little over hundred years this name have been given to 9233 women either as a first or second name, last year (2008) there were four girls who got this name.

The meaning is more close to maiden. It can mean virgin, but usually refers to a young girl. [noted -ed]

Also a Zulu word meaning "war".

The problem with "Impi" is it sounds like... well, "imp". (An imp, for anyone who may not know, is a small, ugly demon-like creature who runs around playing tricks on people.) I can't take this name seriously because of that. It's the sort of name that I would give to a mischievous pet, not a real human girl.

Impi is a song by Juluka.