Campbell
370,555 people in the United States were counted with the surname Campbell in the 2020 census, making it the 48th most common in the country. That is about one person in 807.
By the numbers
- People
- 370,555
- Rank
- 48th
- How common
- 1 in 807
- Per 100,000
- 124.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from + sròn (“nose”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Campbell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Campbell
- Naomi Campbell (born 1970)British ubermodel
- Kim Campbell (born 1947)19th Prime Minister of Canada in 1993
- Joseph Campbell (1904–1987)American mythologist, writer and lecturer
- Neve Campbell (born 1973)Canadian actress
- William C. Campbell (born 1930)Irish biochemist
- Bruce Campbell (born 1958)American actor
- Sol Campbell (born 1974)English footballer and manager
- Joel Campbell (born 1992)Costa Rican footballer
People named Campbell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Campbell
Also a first name
Campbell has been given to 13,514 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.