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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Hampshire) : apparently from Middle English domp ‘vapor’, ‘gas’ (probably a loan word from Middle Low German), applied as a topographic name.
  • North German and Danish : habitational name from a place called Damp, for example the one near Kiel.

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