Kamps
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a field, meadow, or other uncultivated land/dwelling feature; bearer count 1413
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kɑmps/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Kamps is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 7.8K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 23K
- CACanada≈1 in 180Kfew records
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from a field, meadow, or other uncultivated land/dwelling feature; bearer count 1413.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kamps 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Kamps | 112 |
| NL Netherlands | #760 | 2,208 | 1 in 7.8K | 2.2K | Kamps | 62 |
| US United States | — | 1,749 | 1 in 190K | 1.8K | Kamps | 214 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Kamps | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 375K | — | Kamps | 33 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Kamps | 4 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Kamps | 1 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kamps 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, Toponymischer Familienname zu mnd. kamp 'Landstück, besonders eingefriedigtes Stück Land, Weide-/Ackerland, gehegtes Waldstück' < lat. campus 'Feld'; i.d.R. starker patronymischer Genitiv von Kamp(e), daneben HerkunftsN; Bearer count: 1413 tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Icelandic, indefinite genitive singular of kampur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of kamp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Lielāks gabals; kukurznis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Groza rokturis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Johann Kampsb. 1890DEGerman architect (1890-1943)
- John Kampsb. 1953USAmerican screenwriter
- Bernd Sebastian Kampsb. 1954DEGerman author
- Heiner Kampsb. 1955DEGerman entrepreneur, founder of the Kamps bakery chain
- Uwe Kampsb. 1964DEGerman football player
- Philipp Kampsb. 1966DEGerman university teacher and architect
- Wart Kampsb. 1977NLDutch cabaret artist
- Gülcan Kampsb. 1982DEGerman television presenter
- Joeri De Kampsb. 1992NLDutch footballer
- Marit Kampsb. 2001NLDutch judoka
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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.2K | #544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,824 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,455 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kamps mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a field, meadow, or other uncultivated land/dwelling feature; bearer count 1413. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Kamps?
- In Dutch /kɑmps/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kamps have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Kamps in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamps.
- Where is Kamps most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kamps is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kamps?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,208 people named Kamps in 2007, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Kamps compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Kamps is the 760th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kampsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kamps” — the 760th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.