Campion
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: (i) ‘professional champion’, someone who fought for another, especially in trial by combat; or (ii) person from Compiègne, northern France
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kæmpiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Campion is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 36K
- USUnited States1 in 92K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
3,614 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
(i) ‘professional champion’, someone who fought for another, especially in trial by combat; or (ii) person from Compiègne, northern France.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Campion is read(measured from records)
Campion is one spelling over 3 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.
- English68%
(i) ‘professional champion’, someone who fought for another, especially in trial by combat; or (ii) person from Compiègne, northern France.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Thomas, English poet & composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French18%
Même origine que Champion.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Spanish5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Campion in Spanish.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Campion 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,614 | 1 in 92K | 3.6K | Campion | 340 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 339 | — | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Campion | 165 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Campion | 18 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Campion | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Campion | 117 |
| IE Ireland | #905 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Campion | 85 |
| GY Guyana | — | 103 | 1 in 7.3K | 103 | — | 4 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #866 | — | — | — | Campion | 1 |
3,614 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Campion is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional, redução de Campione.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Irish, This name, derived from a Norman-French word denoting a combatant in an arena (akin to champion) was well established in the midlands by the seventeenth century, and by 1850 it was very numerous in Cos. Leix and Kilkenny. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Edmund Campionb. 1540GBEnglish Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
- Thomas Campionb. 1567GBEnglish composer, poet and physician
- Léo Campionb. 1905FRFrench actor (1905–1992)
- Gerald Campionb. 1921GBBritish actor (1921-2002)
- Richard Campionb. 1923NZNew Zealand theatre director (1923-2013)
- Edith Campionb. 1923NZNew Zealand actor, writer and poet (1923–2007)
- Édith Cressonb. 1934FRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992
- Jane Campionb. 1954NZNew Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
- Cris Campionb. 1966FRFrench actor
- Michael Campionb. 2002USAmerican actor
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,043 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,085 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 481 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 429 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 410 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 391 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 378 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 339 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 306 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 297 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 264 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Campion mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘professional champion’, someone who fought for another, especially in trial by combat; or (ii) person from Compiègne, northern France. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Campion?
- A machine transcription gives /kæmpiən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Campion have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Campion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled campion.
- Where is Campion most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Campion is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 7.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Campion?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,614 people named Campion in 2010, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
- How common is Campion compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Campion is the 866th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Campion?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/campionThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Campion” — the 866th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.