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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an altered spelling of German Rampe :
  • habitational name from a place so named near Schwerin.
  • in the north, a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after a warehouse or granary for example, from Middle Low German rampe ‘storage’, ‘warehouse’.

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