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    The surname Kempf

    A German surname, carried by 6,364 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K510

    Kempf: #5,465 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kempf #5,465, 6,364 people Kempf: #5,465 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kempf #5,465, 6,364 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kempf is more common than 96.6% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    German and Danish surname, variant of Kämpf, Kampf.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,364 people named Kempf in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 48,514 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,232.

    #5,465
    rank among US surnames
    6,364
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #5,164)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,456Pinkney6,37848,408
    #5,457Kwiatkowski6,37748,415
    #5,458Agustin6,37548,431
    #5,459Fike6,37448,438
    #5,460Soule6,37248,453
    #5,462Felipe6,37048,469
    #5,463Perrone6,36848,484

    Who is named Kempf

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Kempf identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kempf

    Kempf has the Soundex code K510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K510.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kempf come from?
    German and Danish surname, variant of Kämpf, Kampf.
    How common is the surname Kempf?
    6,364 people in the United States had the surname Kempf in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 48,514 Americans. It ranked 5,465th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kempf?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kempf identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kempf getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,232 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,364 in 2010, up 2.1%.