Kempa Family History
Kempa Name Meaning
Polish: variant of Kępa from kępa ‘islet’. The same word is also applied to isolated clumps of trees and to tufts of grass; hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a small island or by an isolated clump of trees. German: habitational name from any of several places so named for example in Silesia (now Poland).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022