Campbell

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Campbell: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Campbell: Recorded since 1993, it reached #78 in 1999, and it stood at #218 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
32years from first to last
#78highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2013

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#4739

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #218 among boys in Scotland, #3254 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1993–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1993
First recorded at #96 among boys in New Zealand in 1993 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Boys
Highest recorded1993–2002
Highest recorded position: #78 among boys in New Zealand, in 1999 (recorded 1993–2002).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Campbell appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 529 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Boys, from 1993.

Campbell across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Campbell's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#633 (1996)	#633 (1996)	#3254 (2024)	29 of 29	529 (1996–2024)	32 (2004)
New Zealand · Boys	#96 (1993)	#78 (1999)	#91 (2002)	7 of 10	422 (1993–2002)	68 (1999)

Campbell by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Campbell in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	86	4 of 10	22
2000sbusiest	248	10 of 10	25
2010s	155	10 of 10	16
2020s	40	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 25 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Campbell appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #78 in New Zealand in 1999.

Campbell's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2325	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1869	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1421	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1183	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1589	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1447	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1033	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1053	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#885	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#717	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#865	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#722	26	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#668	27	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#718	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#887	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#759	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#633	25	High	Verified
2002	New Zealand	male	#91	53	High	Verified
2000	New Zealand	male	#85	57	High	Verified
1999	New Zealand	male	#78	68	High	Verified
1998	New Zealand	male	#81	63	High	Verified
1996	New Zealand	male	#88	61	High	Verified
1995	New Zealand	male	#88	64	High	Verified
1993	New Zealand	male	#96	56	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#218	19	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1993 and 2024, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #78, first reached in 1999.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 68 births, registered in New Zealand in 1999.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 31 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Camille · #317, 33y
Camilo · #1745, 23y
Camron · #335, 28y
Camryn · #423, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Demi · #78, 34y
Joey · #78, 32y
Lyra · #78, 26y
Miley · #79, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abi · #78, 30y
Demi · #78, 34y
Joey · #78, 32y
Lyra · #78, 26y

Campbell was ranked #78 in New Zealand · Boys in 1999. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Campbell and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Campbell without appearing here.

Campbell moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2325 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3412 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1935 and #3848.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2325 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2493 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Campbell

Aksel Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1703 and #1812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3412 and #1382.
Andrea Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1703 and #1923 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3412 and #1455.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2493 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #2018.
Anders Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2325 and #2546 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #2263.

Moved the opposite way to Campbell

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Campbell

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Campbell went from #633 to #3254 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1993 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #78 in New Zealand in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Campbell

Campbell at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Campbell across 2 official records

Campbell by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Campbell appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Campbell at a glance

Campbell across 2 official records

Campbell by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Campbell appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Campbell

Campbell and the names beside it

Campbell moved ahead of

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