Lämpe Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Lämpe family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

How common is Lämpe?

Public name statistics give a good picture of the Lämpe surname. According to the 2010 US Census, the Lämpe surname had 5,290 bearers. That puts it among the top 10,000 US surnames. French birth records list 670 children named Lämpe between 1891 and 2000.

The meaning of Lämpe is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Lämpe line back.

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