Campbell
Campbell is given to both girls and boys: 474 girls and 337 boys were given it in 2025 (#617 among girls’ names and #764 among boys’, #787 among all names counting both); 13,514 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Campbell every year since 2023.
An estimated 12,800 Americans named Campbell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Campbell climbed 338 places in 2025, the #14 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Campbell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Campbell mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Campbell is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of 2000s and later usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “crooked” (cam) and “mouth” (beul).
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + sròn (“nose”).
As an Irish surname, from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), see Caulfield, Cowell.
As an English surname, variant of Camel, probably influenced by the above.
(duck breed): Developed by Adele Campbell.
/ˈkæmbəl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Campbell?
#617 among girls’ names, 2025
Campbell rose from #1,132 in 2015 to #617 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.29 per 1,000.
811 babies in 2025, the peak
Campbell peaked in 2025, when 811 babies were given it (474 girls, #617 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 273 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 474 | #617 | 337 | #764 |
| 2024 | 273 | #955 | 251 | #923 |
| 2023 | 216 | #1,127 | 212 | #1,031 |
| 2022 | 198 | #1,221 | 214 | #1,034 |
| 2021 | 210 | #1,162 | 205 | #1,046 |
| 2020 | 195 | #1,190 | 165 | #1,166 |
| 2019 | 190 | #1,233 | 143 | #1,296 |
| 2018 | 200 | #1,193 | 159 | #1,193 |
| 2017 | 223 | #1,124 | 179 | #1,091 |
| 2016 | 226 | #1,119 | 179 | #1,097 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 225 | #1,132 | 138 | #1,290 |
| 2014 | 238 | #1,075 | 173 | #1,104 |
| 2013 | 280 | #913 | 154 | #1,170 |
| 2012 | 304 | #877 | 149 | #1,203 |
| 2011 | 276 | #935 | 148 | #1,194 |
| 2010 | 360 | #758 | 188 | #1,031 |
| 2009 | 396 | #733 | 147 | #1,222 |
| 2008 | 387 | #760 | 165 | #1,111 |
| 2007 | 392 | #743 | 148 | #1,188 |
| 2006 | 435 | #663 | 177 | #1,033 |
| 2005 | 389 | #703 | 186 | #937 |
| 2004 | 318 | #797 | 164 | #1,007 |
| 2003 | 260 | #914 | 164 | #975 |
| 2002 | 197 | #1,077 | 143 | #1,060 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,403 | 142 | #1,034 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,948 | 128 | #1,095 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,369 | 114 | #1,150 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,976 | 97 | #1,246 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,528 | 73 | #1,466 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,072 | 78 | #1,367 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,006 | 57 | #1,600 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,044 | 67 | #1,430 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,408 | 58 | #1,552 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,706 | 59 | #1,507 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,053 | 25 | #2,685 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,375 | 12 | #4,439 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,658 | 13 | #4,045 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 14 | #3,542 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 12 | #3,749 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,029 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 10 | #4,082 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 12 | #3,488 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 9 | #4,175 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,494 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 13 | #3,238 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 9 | #4,182 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 11 | #3,594 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 16 | #2,683 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,217 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 11 | #3,292 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,373 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,310 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 12 | #2,870 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,021 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 7 | #4,020 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,895 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,089 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,409 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 6 | #3,606 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 8 | #3,018 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 12 | #2,383 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,683 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 9 | #2,883 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,345 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 13 | #2,333 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,441 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,061 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 9 | #2,852 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 13 | #2,288 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 10 | #2,646 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 10 | #2,590 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 12 | #2,329 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 11 | #2,409 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 10 | #2,539 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 10 | #2,520 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 16 | #1,887 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 18 | #1,763 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 14 | #2,040 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #2,905 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 10 | #2,417 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 16 | #1,705 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 11 | #2,209 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 15 | #1,920 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 19 | #1,634 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 14 | #1,919 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 6 | #3,180 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 15 | #1,828 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 9 | #2,516 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 8 | #2,661 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 9 | #2,555 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 11 | #2,286 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 9 | #2,568 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 10 | #2,484 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 9 | #2,682 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 15 | #1,978 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 21 | #1,622 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 9 | #2,879 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 19 | #1,810 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 28 | #1,380 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 17 | #1,942 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 20 | #1,786 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 17 | #1,953 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 16 | #2,053 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 25 | #1,515 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 18 | #1,897 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 22 | #1,578 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 21 | #1,663 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 25 | #1,402 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 19 | #1,649 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 20 | #1,561 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 20 | #1,349 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 9 | #1,963 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 16 | #1,187 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 5 | #1,406 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 6 | #1,116 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 6 | #1,031 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 6 | #951 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 6 | #928 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 6 | #859 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 8 | #710 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 7 | #767 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 5 | #886 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Campbell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,514 Americans recorded as Campbell, 54% are girls and 46% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Campbell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Campbell, and how old are they?
12,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 13,514 Americans ever recorded as Campbell. The median Campbell alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 10,224 people named Campbell (5,826 women and girls, 4,398 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,005 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 41 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 135 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 126 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 556 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Campbell born?
The states with the most babies named Campbell are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 109 | #540 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 56 | #320 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 53 | #282 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 51 | #251 | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 39 | #167 | 1.8× |
| California | 35 | #1,190 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 27 | #471 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 27 | #918 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 26 | #451 | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 25 | #380 | 2.0× |
Where Campbell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Campbell is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Campbell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 13,688 babies since 1880, Campbell is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 811 of their 843 babies (96%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Campbell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Campbell and names like it
- Compare Campbell and KampbellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCampbell peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Campbell since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Campbell: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Campbell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Campbell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.