Semper: Surname History and Family Crest

Semper is an English surname. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “one who came from St. Pierre (rock), the name of many places in France”.

Researching the origin

Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

434 Americans were listed as Semper in the 2010 census. In the Spanish register, Semper appears 340 times as a first surname and 288 times as a second one.

Family crest and blazon

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

Get the complete Semper report, with a museum-style coat of arms.