Family name origins & meanings
- Probably of Dutch or German origin : an altered form of German Leinkamp, a topographic name composed of Middle Low German lein(e) ‘grazing land with wide ditches’ (see Leifeste) + kamp ‘field’.
- Probably of Dutch or German origin : alternatively, perhaps, an altered form of Leinkamp ‘flax field’, from Middle High German līn ‘flax’, ‘canvas’, ‘linen’, + kamp ‘field’.