Kamp Family History

German, Dutch, and Danish: from Low German and Dutch kamp ‘enclosed, fenced, or hedged piece of land, field’ (from Latin campus ‘plain’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a field.

Dutch: from Middle Low German kampe ‘warrior, combatant’, applied as a nickname or an occupational name.

Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a hemp grower from Middle Dutch kanep ‘hemp’.

South German: from the Austrian dialect word Kamp ‘comb’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a comb maker or a wool comber, or a topographic name for a mountain dweller from the same word in the sense ‘mountain crest’. Compare Kamm.

English (Norfolk and London): variant of Camp.