Champ Name Origin and Family Crest

Official name counts are where our Champ file begins.

Champ coat of arms

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Champ family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Researching the origin

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Champ, the family's own records come first. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Champ line back.

About 3,104 people in the United States were recorded as Champ in 2010, placing it 10,380 on the national list. French birth records list 1,218 children named Champ between 1891 and 2000. Get the complete Champ report, with a museum-style coat of arms.