Kamp Family History
Kamp Name Meaning
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
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022