French: regional name for someone from Champagne, named in Latin as
Campania (from campus ‘plain’, ‘flat land’). This is
also the name of various villages in France, and in some cases the
family name may derive from one of these.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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