Campbell as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Campbell

What is the meaning of the name Campbell ?

The baby name Campbell is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈkæm.bəl/ (KAM-bəl).

Campbell is Scottish Gaelic in Origin.

Campbell is a Scottish surname-turned-given-name from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, meaning “crooked mouth” (cam “bent, crooked” + beul “mouth”). The name is closely tied to Clan Campbell, a powerful Highland lineage centered in Argyll; its anglicized spelling settled as Campbell while the Gaelic form Caimbeul remained in clan and heraldic use. Through Scots migration it became common in Ulster and, later, throughout the English-speaking world.

As a first name, Campbell rose in the 19th century with the fashion for surnames as given names - initially more common for boys but now widely unisex in Britain, North America, and Australasia. Short forms include Cam and, occasionally, Belle for girls. Variant and related forms include the Gaelic Caimbeul, rarer surname spellings like Camble and Cambell, and the cognate Cameron (from cam + sròn “nose”), which shares the element cam but derives from a different second root.