# Campbell (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/campbell/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Meaning | “crooked”, “mouth”, “nose”, “son of cathmhaol” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkæmbəl/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Camp |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,514 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,214 / 7,300 (54% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 545, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + sròn (“nose”). * As an Irish surname, from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), see Caulfield, Cowell. * As an English surname, variant of Camel, probably influenced by the above. * (duck breed): Developed by Adele Campbell.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 276 | 935 |
| 2012 | 304 | 877 |
| 2013 | 280 | 913 |
| 2014 | 238 | 1,075 |
| 2015 | 225 | 1,132 |
| 2016 | 226 | 1,119 |
| 2017 | 223 | 1,124 |
| 2018 | 200 | 1,193 |
| 2019 | 190 | 1,233 |
| 2020 | 195 | 1,190 |
| 2021 | 210 | 1,162 |
| 2022 | 198 | 1,221 |
| 2023 | 216 | 1,127 |
| 2024 | 273 | 955 |
| 2025 | 474 | 617 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 148 | 1,194 |
| 2012 | 149 | 1,203 |
| 2013 | 154 | 1,170 |
| 2014 | 173 | 1,104 |
| 2015 | 138 | 1,290 |
| 2016 | 179 | 1,097 |
| 2017 | 179 | 1,091 |
| 2018 | 159 | 1,193 |
| 2019 | 143 | 1,296 |
| 2020 | 165 | 1,166 |
| 2021 | 205 | 1,046 |
| 2022 | 214 | 1,034 |
| 2023 | 212 | 1,031 |
| 2024 | 251 | 923 |
| 2025 | 337 | 764 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,447 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 12 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,014 |

## People named Campbell

- Jamie Campbell Bower, British actor
- Campbell Scott, Canadian American actor and film director (born 1961)
- Stephen Campbell Moore, British actor (born 1979)
- Thomas Campbell Clark, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1899-1977)
- Campbell Newman, 38th Premier of Queensland
- Campbell Flakemore, Australian bicycle racer
- Brian Campbell Vickery, British information theorist (1918–2009)
- Ronald Campbell Gunn, Australian botanist and politician (1808-1881)
- Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of London; Dean of Carlisle (1811-1882)
- Campbell Best, footballer
- George C. Scott, American actor, film director and producer (1927–1999)
- Niall Ferguson, British historian

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.