Campos

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kampos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Campos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 240(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 349
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 523

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

883,403 people

#658 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
401 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 76 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CamposLatin(measured from records)
КампусCyrillic(measured from records)
ΚαμποςGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Korean

①브라질 내륙부의 고원을 뒤덮은 광대한 초원과 그 지역. ②브라질 동남부 리우데자네이루(Rio de Janeiro) 주의 도시.

Sources 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Campos counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Campos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#49883,4031 in 240883KCampos248
US United States—96,1111 in 3.5K96KCampos401
PE Peru—≈92,000 est.≈1 in 349—Campos81
AR Argentina—72,2891 in 62972KCampos3
ES Spain#67967,9521 in 73668KCampos156
CR Costa Rica—67,2651 in 7667K——
SV El Salvador—≈37,000 est.≈1 in 17540K—1
PT Portugal#55≈20,000 est.≈1 in 523—Campos170

883,403 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Campos is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cämpös, Campós, Cámpos, Campòs, Campös

  • English surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Campòs, Campos', Ċämpös, Cȃṃpṏś, Çampos

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Campo-S, Camp-Os

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

77 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Campos is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, accusative plural of campus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, plural of campu

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, CÁMPOS s. n. pl. Nume dat savanei din platourile braziliene. [Pr.: cámpuș].

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

  • In Croatian, geogr. prostrani pašnjaci u Brazilu

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Paco Campos, b. 1916María Teresa Campos Luque, b. 1941Adrián Campos, b. 1960Jorginho, b. 1964Eduardo Campos, b. 1965Jorge Campos, b. 1966César Sampaio, b. 1968Bruno Campos, b. 1973Antonio Campos, b. 1983Djalma Campos, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Campos,Dear Campos, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Campos,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Campos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—883K#55
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201096K#323
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202094K#328
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—72K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200070K#420
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—68K#61
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—68K#61
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—67K#19
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—40K#32
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Campos?
A machine transcription gives /kampos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Campos have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 883 thousand people named Campos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled campos.
Where is Campos most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Campos is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 76 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Campos?
In Brazil, the national register counted 883,403 people named Campos, about 1 in 240 residents.
How common is Campos compared with other names?
In Brazil, Campos is the 49th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Campos” — the 49th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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