Given name & surname
Kamp
“enclosed piece of land”
Kamp is a surname. It is used in Dutch.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kamp goes back to a word, meaning “enclosed piece of land.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kamp through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 72 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 26
- #4,089 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 26 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,089 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,587 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kamp’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Kamp has a later derivative in KAMPPI. In German usage, Kamp as a surname has a related form in KAMPMANN.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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