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The kempen Surname

kempen Name Meaning and History

  1. German: topographic names from any of various places called Kempen, in the Rhineland, in the Ruhrgebiet, and Schleswig-Holstein, or from Kempno in Poland (Polish Kepno).
  2. Belgian: regional name for someone from Kempen, a region in Brabant.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kempen name in History

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Distribution of kempen Families in the US in 1920
Number of kempen families
 8-13
 3-7		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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