Campbell

#617 for girls in 2025, 474 births · #763 for boys in 2025, 337 births
Given to girls 54.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
2025 · 474 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,300
since 1989

Campbell over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201885peak #700, 1885girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#617474#763337
2024#955273#922251
2023#1,125216#1,031212
2022#1,220198#1,032214
2021#1,162210#1,046205
2020#1,189195#1,166165
2019#1,233190#1,296143
2018#1,192200#1,193159
2017#1,124223#1,090179
2016#1,118226#1,096179
2015#1,131225#1,287138
2014#1,074238#1,102173
2013#912280#1,169154
2012#876304#1,202149
2011#934276#1,193148
2010#757360#1,031188
2009#733396#1,218147
2008#760387#1,111165
2007#743392#1,188148
2006#663435#1,033177
2005#703389#937186
2004#797318#1,007164
2003#914260#975164
2002#1,077197#1,060143
2001#1,403135#1,035142
2000#2,94048#1,096128
1999#2,36862#1,149114
1998#2,97343#1,24697
1997#4,50823#1,46873
1996#4,05926#1,36878
1995#5,95815#1,60357
1994#5,01619#1,43467
1993#4,39323#1,55458
1992#4,68621#1,51059
1991#7,98710#2,68325
1990#9,2478#4,40712
1989#12,3625#4,01713
1988—#3,52314
1987—#3,73112
1986—#5,9266
1985—#4,05210
1984—#3,45912
1983—#4,1419
1982—#6,3855
1981—#3,22113
1980—#4,1349
1979—#3,56911
1978—#2,66916
1977—#4,1648
1976—#3,26411
1975—#4,3097
1974—#5,2275
1973—#2,85712
1972—#3,9637
1971—#3,9637
1970—#3,8367
1969—#3,0629
1968—#3,3657
1967—#3,5596
1966—#2,9868
1965—#2,36612
1964—#2,66510
1963—#2,8589
1962—#3,3057
1961—#2,32213
1960—#2,42312
1959—#3,9885
1958—#2,8189
1957—#2,27413
1956—#2,62810
1955—#2,55810
1954—#2,31612
1953—#2,39111
1952—#2,51410
1951—#2,49510
1950—#1,87916
1949—#1,75418
1948—#2,02714
1947—#2,8628
1946—#2,40310
1945—#1,69716
1944—#2,19511
1943—#1,91015
1942—#1,62919
1941—#1,90314
1940—#3,1306
1939——
1938—#1,81815
1937—#2,4799
1936—#2,6298
1935—#2,5299
1934—#2,26611
1933—#2,5429
1932—#2,46510
1931—#2,6519
1930—#1,96415
1929—#1,61121
1928—#2,8439
1927—#1,79619
1926—#1,37928
1925—#1,93517
1924—#1,77620
1923—#1,94117
1922—#2,04016
1921—#1,50925
1920—#1,88518
1919—#1,57622
1918—#1,64821
1917—#1,39625
1916—#1,64619
1915—#1,55320
1914—#1,34220
1913—#1,9459
1912—#1,17416
1911——
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1909——
1908—#1,3735
1907——
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1905—#1,0916
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1903—#1,0096
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1900——
1899—#9286
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1894——
1893—#9076
1892——
1891—#8416
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1885—#7008
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1882—#7547
1881—#8665
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First appearance
1989

The first year at least five girls were named Campbell! It came in at #12,362, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Campbell is popular in 1885

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Campbell
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 338 spots since 2024 (#955 → #617)
  • 572 spots since 2020 (#1,189 → #617)
  • 514 spots since 2015 (#1,131 → #617)
  • Biggest jump: 338 spots in 2025 (#955 → #617)
  • Biggest drop: 177 spots in 2011 (#757 → #934)
Rise & fade · girls
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1989
  • Peaked 2025 at #617 (474 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2003–2013
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,391
  • Highest: 1 in 3,391 girls born in 2025 were named Campbell (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 40.5% of all girls named Campbell (2,957) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2023
  • Mostly boys until 2022, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#12,362 (1989)#12,362
1990s250#2,368 (1999)#5,120
2000s2,957#663 (2006)#1,073
2010s2,522#757 (2010)#1,035
2020s1,566#617 (2025)#1,045

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Campbell in 1885

boys
#700
8 births · 1 in 13,475 boys

Top boys' names in 1885

  1. #1John8,756
  2. #2William8,044
  3. #3James5,175
  4. #4George4,674
  5. #5Charles4,599
  6. #6Frank3,067
  7. #7Joseph2,540
  8. #8Henry2,406
  9. #9Robert2,322
  10. #10Thomas2,266
  11. #700Campbell8
More about 1885

boys

107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 13,475 of them was named Campbell, which outranked 36.2% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Campbell
  1. #641Winfred9
  2. #641Wright9
  3. #641Wyatt9
  4. #700Campbell8
  5. #700Alonza8
  6. #700Alvie8
  7. #700Andres8
  8. #765Adolf7
  9. #765Alois7
  10. #765Bailey7

Tied with 64 names at #700; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1884
Risers
  1. ↑ 426Bryant#848 → #422
  2. ↑ 424Butler#971 → #547
  3. ↑ 424Cyril#971 → #547
  4. ↑ 409Gerhard#848 → #439
  5. ↑ 394Rowland#971 → #577
Fallers
  1. ↓ 520Clarance#416 → #936
  2. ↓ 416Oswald#520 → #936
  3. ↓ 389Doctor#547 → #936
  4. ↓ 366Dexter#570 → #936
  5. ↓ 366Gustaf#570 → #936

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1885 →