Släkthistoria för Kember
Kember Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English kemere kember kimer kimber ‘one who cards wool or flax’ a derivative of Middle English kemen kemben (Old English cemban) ‘to card or comb with a tool made of teasel heads’. Compare Kempster and Comber. Some of the names listed below without the definite article may alternatively belong with (2). perhaps from the Middle English personal name Kenemere *Kinemer with -nm- becoming -mb- or reduced to -m-. The personal name could represent either Old English Cēnmǣr or Old English Cynemǣr compounds of cēn- ‘bold’ or cyne- ‘kin family’ + mǣre ‘famous’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
