# Kempen (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/kempen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 731 |
| US rank (2010) | 31,629 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 422,361 people |
| Change since 2000 | +23% (595 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German surname, from the town Kempen in Germany or Kępno in Poland. * As a West Flemish surname, from Campine in Belgium, also called Kempen. * As a Dutch surname, variant of van Kempen, from both placenames above.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kempen in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Kempen in Belgium.

## People named Kempen

- Magali Kempen, Belgian tennis player

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.