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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : regional name from medieval Greek kampanos ‘from Campania’.
  • Spanish : either a habitational name from Campano in Cádiz province or from campano ‘cow bell’, hence by metonymy an occupational name for a cowherd.

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