English and French: from Old French champ ‘field’, ‘open
land’ (Latin campus ‘plain’, ‘expanse of flat land’), a
topographic name for someone who lived in or near a field or expanse
of open country, or else in the countryside as opposed to a town.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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