as a Last Name
- 359,793
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Campbell
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked’, ‘bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. The surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp.
| 41st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 359,793
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Campbell per capita
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