Campbell
Campbell is a girl's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 617th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 617th. About 13,000 Campbells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Campbell boys named Campbell
Girls and boys called Campbell
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Campbell crossed from boys to girls in 2002, and has stayed there for 20 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 73% girls, and in 2025 it was 58%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 38 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,514
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 617th
- Rank in 2025
- 617th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 7,300 / 6,214
How old the living Campbells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,514 babies given the name since 1881, about 13,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 8,100 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Developed by Adele Campbell.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Campbells
- Jamie Campbell Bower (born 1988)British actor
- Campbell Scott (born 1961)Canadian American actor and film director
- Campbell Stewart (born 1998)New Zealand cyclist
- Stephen Campbell Moore (born 1979)British actor
- Campbell Wright (born 2002)New Zealand and American biathlete and cross-country skier
- Thomas Campbell Clark (1899–1977)Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Campbell Walsh (born 1977)Scottish slalom canoeist
People named Campbell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Campbell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Campbell is most concentrated in Tennessee (3.1×), South Carolina (3.0×), Virginia (2.7×), North Carolina (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Campbell peaked:
Campbell elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Campbell | 1,187 | 96th |
| England and Wales boys | Campbell | 541 | 717th |
| New Zealand boys | Campbell | 422 | 78th |
| France boys | Campbell | 5 | 5,671st |
| England and Wales girls | Campbell | 4 | 4,739th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Campbell | 3 | 307th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Campbell among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Campbell | — | 24 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Campbell against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.