Last Name KEMP

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Meaning The kemp, a knight, a soldier, a champion.
A soldier.
In old English, a soldier, one who engaged in single combat. The name Kemp is derived from the Saxon word to 'kemp,' or combat, which in Norfolk is retained to this day; a foot-ball match being called a camping or kemping; and thus in Saxon a Kemper signifies a combatant, a champion, a man-at-arms. In some parts of Scotland the striving of reapers in the harvest-field is still called kemping.
Origin English, Scottish, Jewish, Dutch, Irish, Anglo-saxon, Amish, Belgian, Zimbabwean, South african, Hungarian

Rank 698 (2000 US census) 588 (1990 US census)
Count 44,701 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 73.76%, or 32971 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 22.17%, or 9910 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.37%, or 165 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.64%, or 286 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.71%, or 764 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.34%, or 599 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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