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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and German : nickname for someone with a sardonic or derisive sense of humor, from Middle Low German, Dutch schamp, schimp ‘play’, ‘fun’, ‘mockery’.
  • Dutch : respelling of French Champ.

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