[3] The governments of Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa do not currently provide lists of surnames as the UK and others do.
People with the surname Camp have no single origin or ancestor, the name instead having been chosen by different families over a few centuries.
"[5][6] However, the name usually denotes a family whose house was on an open field, or "camp", rather than in the woods or elsewhere.
[7] The word was borrowed from the Middle French "camp", its first use in English, in 1528, being for a "place where an army lodges temporarily", only later transferring to a non-military use sometime after 1560.
Coincidentally, the word's martial sense had been borrowed by the Germanic tribes during their conflicts with the Romans to become the aforementioned "kampo-z".