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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : distinguishing name denoting a tenant farmer whose farm was on a mountain crest, from Middle High German kamb(e), kam(me) ‘comb’, by extension ‘crest of a mountain range’ + meier ‘tenant farmer’ (see Meyer).

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