Kempin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name, with possible competition from a patronymic origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɛmpɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kempin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 132K
- FIFinland≈1 in 185K
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)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
≈610 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name, with possible competition from a patronymic origin.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kempin 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 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Kempin | 59 |
| BR Brazil | 252 | 1 in 840K | 252 | — | — |
| US United States | 196 | 1 in 1.7M | 205 | Kempin | 117 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 652K | — | Kempin | 49 |
| AU Australia | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Kempin | 45 |
| PL Poland | 73 | 1 in 524K | 37 | Kempin | 1 |
| FI Finland | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Kempin | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Kempin | 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Walter Kempinb. 1850CHSwiss parson (1850-1926)
- Emilie Kempin-Spyrib. 1853CHSwiss jurist and women's rights advocate (1853-1901), editor
- Kurt Kempinb. 1874DEGerman painter (1874-1972)
- Hans Kempinb. 1913DESS officer
- Joachim Kempinb. 1942DEGerman businessman
- Silvia Kempinb. 1955DEGerman athletics competitor
- Jon Kempinb. 1993USAmerican soccer player
- Leonie Kempinb. 1994DEGerman association football player
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 252 | #30,454 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 205 | #84,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 196 | #93,513 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 172 | #109,465 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 37 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 37 | #60,773 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 36 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 36 | #62,360 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kempin mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name, with possible competition from a patronymic origin. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Kempin?
- A machine transcription gives /kɛmpɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kempin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 605 people named Kempin in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kempin.
- How common is the name Kempin?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 252 people named Kempin, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kempinThe 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, “Kempin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.