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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic names from any of various places called Kempen, in the Rhineland, in the Ruhrgebiet, and Schleswig-Holstein, or from Kempno in Poland (Polish Kępno).
  • Belgian : regional name for someone from Kempen, a region in Brabant.

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