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campbell Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. In New England documents, Campbell sometimes occurs as a representation of the French name Hamel.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The campbell name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the campbell family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of campbell Families in the US in 1920
Number of campbell families
 2423-4843
 808-2422		 1-807
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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