Damp Family History
Damp Name Meaning
English (Isle of Wight and Hampshire): apparently from Middle English damp domp ‘vapor gas moisture damp’ (probably a loanword from Middle Low German) applied as a topographic name. Various other senses of the word which are only recorded from the 16th century onward may have been current earlier including ‘stupor trance’ and ‘state of dejection depression’. North German and Danish: habitational name from a place called Damp for example the one near Kiel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022