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kempa Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish (also Kepa): from kepa ‘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.
  2. German: variant of Kempe or Kempen.

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Distribution of kempa Families in the US in 1920
Number of kempa families
 10-18
 4-9
 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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