Entry № 1741 · Scottish origin

Campbell Campbell — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAM-buhl /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Crooked mouth (Naomi Campbell, supermodel)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "crooked mouth (naomi campbell, supermodel)".

Campbell is from the Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul — cam (crooked) + beul (mouth). The Campbell Clan is one of the most-historically-significant Scottish Highland clans.

Crooked mouth (Naomi Campbell, supermodel) — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Campbell
Transliteration
Campbell
Pronunciation
/ ˈkæm.bəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Campbell stands.

Campbell does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Campbells before her.

Real people
Naomi Campbell
British supermodel.
born 1970
In fiction
Campbell
Modern American surname-naming.

Names connected to Campbell.

The number behind Campbell.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Campbell reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.