Kamp Family History
- Kamp Name Meaning
- Dutch and German: from Low German kamp ‘enclosed, fenced, or hedged piece of land’, ‘field’ (from Latin campus ‘plain’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a field. Dutch: from Middle Low German kampe ‘warrior’, ‘combatant’, applied as a nickname or an occupational name, or from a Germanic personal name based on this element. Compare German Kampe, Kampf. 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 ridge’. Compare Kamm.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 281,340 Historical Documents with Kamp on Ancestry
- 179,320 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,784 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,426 Military Records
- 7,529 Immigration Records
- 57,281 Member Trees
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Number of Kamp families
 61 - 119  21 - 60 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kamp families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kamp census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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