Surname · also Celtic
Kempston
“crooked, bent”
Kempston is a surname, probably from Proto-Brythonic (ultimately Old English).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kempston probably goes back to Proto-Brythonic *kam, meaning “crooked, bent.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Kempston probably comes from Proto-Brythonic, and ultimately from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Probably from Proto-Brythonic *kam (“crooked, bent”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos, from Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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