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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name composed of Kamp (from Middle Low German kamp ‘enclosed field for cultivation’, ‘pasture’) + wert (from Middle High German, Middle Low German wert ‘island’, ‘peninsula’), denoting someone who lived on or owned a field surrounded by water.

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