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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian : topographic name for someone who lived by an open field, from Latin campus ‘plain’, ‘uncultivated land’, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, in particular the village of Camp in Flanders near Lille.

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