Campbell Family History
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Campbell Name Meaning
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. In New England documents, Campbell sometimes occurs as a representation of the French name Hamel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Cambell, Capelle, Castell, Chappell, Cantwell, Carnell, Corbell