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).
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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