Kempton Family History
Kempton Name Meaning
habitational name from a place called Kempton in
Shropshire, named from an Old English personal name Cempa (or
the Old English vocabulary word cempa ‘warrior’) +
tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.variant of
Kimpton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kempton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kempton families
 46 - 90  16 - 45 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kempton families
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178 - 353 60 - 177 |
1 - 59 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kempton families
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12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kempton Family Origin
Kempton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Kempton
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Kempton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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