Kemper
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 60 babies a year in the US.
Kemper by the numbers
Kemper was given to 60 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 70 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Kemper
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kemper. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Kemetblack land; ancient name for Egypt14 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Kemper
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