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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Reduced form of Dutch van der Kamer or Verkamer : from kamer ‘room’, ‘chamber’, hence either a status name for a chamberlain or a topographic name for someone who lived in a single-room dwelling.
  • Swiss German : variant of Kammer.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Kammer ‘room’, ‘chamber’.

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