Last name origins & meanings:
- Reduced form of Dutch van der Kamer or Verkamer: from kamer ‘room’, ‘chamber’, hence either a status name for a
chamberlain or a topographic name for someone who lived in a
single-room dwelling.
- Swiss German: variant of
Kammer.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Kammer
‘room’, ‘chamber’.
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