Kampen Family History
Kampen Name Meaning
Dutch (mainly Van Kampen): habitational name for someone from the city of Kampen in the province of Overijssel or from any other of the places in the Netherlands with that name. North German: topographic name from the plural or an inflected form of Low German kamp ‘enclosed field’ (see Kamp ) or a habitational name from Kampen on the island of Sylt in Schleswig-Holstein. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Kampen from the definite singular form of kamp ‘round hill top boulder’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022