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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone living by a field in open country, from Middle Low German feld ‘open country’ + kamp (from Latin campus) ‘grazing place’, ‘small tree nursery’, apparently for someone who owned or farmed land in an unprotected area, away from a settlement.

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