Kamm, Kamp is a German or Jewish surname, from the German word for "comb", most likely a metonymic occupational surname for a comb maker, or a wool comber.[1]

Kamm is also an alternative form of the surname Kam, Kahm, Cam, Cahm (קם), from Middle High German kâm "mould".[2]

Notable people with the surname include:

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
  2. Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer, Eva H. Guggenheimer, Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary (1992), p. 380.
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