The campbell Surname
campbell Name Meaning and History
- 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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