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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place called Kempton in Shropshire, named from an Old English personal name Cempa (or the Old English vocabulary word cempa ‘warrior’) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
  • English : variant of Kimpton.

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