Kempers Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Whether you spell it Kempers or Kemper, the story begins in the same place. Taken at its root, Kempers points to “Champion, fighter”. Kempers adds a patronymic ending to Kemper, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Kempfer, Kempert and Kämper.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Kempers, so the heraldry linked to Kemper is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Kempers family name pack.