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champion Name Meaning and History

English (of Norman origin) and French: status name for a professional champion, especially an agent employed to represent one of the parties in a trial by combat, a method of settling disputes current in the Middle Ages. The word comes from Old French champion, campion (Late Latin campio, genitive campionis, a derivative of campus ‘plain’, ‘field of battle’). Compare Campion, Kemp.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the champion family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of champion Families in the US in 1920
Number of champion families
 99-196
 34-98		 1-33
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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