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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : reduced form of Kemenater, from Latin caminata ‘with a fireplace or chimney’, hence a nickname for someone who lived in a house with a chimney or a house made of stone.
  • Danish : occupational name from kemner ‘rent collector’, ‘chamberlain’.

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