Kampe

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname from a field, meadow, or other uncultivated land/dwelling feature; bearer count 1345

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈkæmp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kampe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 523K
  • UGUganda≈1 in 275

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Uganda (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 people, est.

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)

Uganda, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kämpe in SE Sweden, FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Toponymic surname from a field, meadow, or other uncultivated land/dwelling feature; bearer count 1345.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kampe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kampe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UG Uganda#45≈160,000 est.≈1 in 275—Kampe1
DE Germany—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 34K—Kampe105
SE Sweden—8331 in 12K833Kämpe17
US United States—6361 in 523K692Kampe163
FI Finland—3241 in 17K324Kämpe5
LV Latvia—≈47 est.≈1 in 40K—Kampe13

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kampe is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Kämpe

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Kämpe, Kampé

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Chile, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kämpe, Kampé

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kampé, Kämpe

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Kämpe

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Uganda, United States, Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Kämpe

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Sweden, Cameroon

    Also written Kampé, Kämpe

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, India

    Also written Kämpe

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kampe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, 1. habitational name from any of several places called Kamp(e), in Pomerania, in Hessen, and near Diisseldorf. 2. status name for a peasant farmer or serf (see Kamp 1). 3. (Kampe): occupational name for a champion (see Kampf).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In German, Toponymischer Familienname zu mnd. kamp 'Landstück, besonders eingefriedigtes Stück Land, Weide-/Ackerland, gehegtes Waldstück' < lat. campus 'Feld'; Bearer count: 1345 tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In Finnish, a good, an item; (in the plural) goods, supplies, one's stuff, one's things

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of kampen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, An armed military conflict; a clash.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Paul Kampe, b. 1885Walther Kampe, b. 1909Werner Kampe, b. 1911Helmut Kampe, b. 1925Eva Kampe, b. 1940Norbert Kampe, b. 1948Greg Kampe, b. 1955Anja Kampe, b. 1968Gordon Kampe, b. 1976

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Kampe,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Kampe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020692#35,096
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000650#33,169
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010636#35,395
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—48#12,976
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—23#41,013
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kampe mean, and where does it come from?
Toponymic surname from a field, meadow, or other uncultivated land/dwelling feature; bearer count 1345. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
How do you pronounce Kampe?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkæmp/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kampe have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 158 thousand people named Kampe in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kampe.
How common is the name Kampe?
In Sweden, the national register counted 833 people named Kampe, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Kampe compared with other names?
In Uganda, Kampe is the 45th most common surname of 6,307 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kampe” — the 45th most common surname in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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