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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Low German komp ‘dish’, ‘bowl’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of these.
  • Hungarian : metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, from komp ‘ferry’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from Kampiai in Lithuania.

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