Campana

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Campaña in EC Ecuador, ES Spain, UY Uruguay.

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)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Campana is read●(measured from records)

Campana is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish38%

  bell

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English35%

  A barangay of Uson, Masbate, Philippines.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese8.7%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Campana in Portuguese.

• French7.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Campana in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

Campana is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname6 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Campañá, Campaňa, Campañà

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Campañá, Campaña, Campañà

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Campañà, Campañá, Campaña

54 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)

Campana 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 Italian, do lat. campana, sino; fabricante ou tocador de sinos.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Latin, a large bell used in late classical or medieval church towers or steeples.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Asturian, bell (percussive instrument)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Zvans

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

• François Frédéric Campanab. 1771FRItalian general (1771–1807)
• Giampietro Campanab. 1808ITItalian art collector (1808-1880)
• Fabio Campanab. 1819ITItalian composer and conductor (1819–1882)
• Dino Campanab. 1885ITItalian poet (1885-1932)
• Loris Campanab. 1926ITItalian racing cyclist (1926–2015)
• Fernando Campanab. 1961BRBrazilian furniture designer (1961-2022)
• Sergio Campanab. 1986ITracecar driver
• Tony Campanab. 1986USbaseball player
• Leonardo Campanab. 2000ECEcuadorian association football player
• Tommaso CampanaITItalian painter

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)

Evidence●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Campana come from?

A barangay of Uson, Masbate, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Campana?

In the etymology graph, Campanella and Campanaro are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Campana?

A machine transcription gives /kampana/ (IPA) for Spanish.

What does the name Campana mean?

In Spanish, bell

In which country does Campana have the most bearers?

In Ecuador, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Campana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled campaña.

Where is Campana most common?

Campana is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Campana?

In Ecuador, the national register counted 7,109 people named Campana in 2024, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.

How common is Campana compared with other names?

In Ecuador, Campana is the 536th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.