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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : status name for a smallholder, usually with just one field to work, from Low German Kamp ‘enclosed field’ (see Kamp 1) + Mann ‘man’.
  • occupational name for a champion (see Kampf, and compare English Kemp).

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