Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant spelling of Kämmer (see Kammer 2).
  • German : from a variant of Kammer ‘chamber’, ‘store’, ‘treasury’, hence an occupational name for a chamberlain or treasurer (see Kammerer).
  • German : habitational name for someone from Kemme.

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