Campbell — #954 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Campbell

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,826 babies named Campbell between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Campbell currently holds the #954 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 435 babies received it in a single year. Campbell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,877 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Campbell performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 2,957 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Campbell shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 809 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Campbell in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Campbell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,826 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.