Last name origins & meanings:
- South German: from Kammer ‘chamber’, ‘storage chamber’,
‘treasury’, hence an occupational name for a chamberlain or treasurer
(see Kammerer).
- South German: (Kämmer) occupational name for a
comb maker or a wool comber or fuller, from an agent derivative of
Middle High German kam(b), kam(me) ‘comb’.
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