# Kump (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/kump/  
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 | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,627 |
| US rank (2010) | 17,359 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 189,764 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.7% (1,497 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German surname for a bowl maker, from Middle Low German kump (“wooden bowl”), from Old Saxon *kumba, from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz. Variants of this derivation are found in Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. * Also as a German surname, Americanized from Kumpf.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kump 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) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Kump in the United States.

## People named Kump

- Herman G. Kump, American politician and judge (1877–1962)

## Similar surnames

Kemp, Kamp, Kumpf, Knapp, Kempf, Knepp, Knopp, Knipp, Knopf, Knop, Knipe, Knupp.

## 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.