Campagna
A surname of Italian origin, usually linked to a place name or to the word for “the countryside.”
The #7,217 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 66,770 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Campagna is an Italian surname built on campagna, meaning “countryside,” “open plain,” or “field.” The word goes back to Latin campania, from campus, “field.” As a surname, it most likely began as a locational name for someone from a place called Campagna, or as a name for a person associated with rural land or open country.
History
The name is found in Italy and in Italian diaspora communities abroad. Because campagna is also a common Italian place word, the surname may have arisen independently in more than one locality. In English-language records it is usually treated as an Italian family name rather than an Anglo-Saxon inherited surname.
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Fun fact
The same root appears in the English word “camp” through Latin campus, though the surname itself is distinctly Italian.
From the historical record
“(Italy.) Lombardy, Piedmont, Venetia, Tuscany, Campagna, Parma, Calabria, - Naples, Venice, Rialto, Vicenza, Modena, Cremona, Stradella, Sienna, Carrara, Genoa, Turin, Milan, Leghorn, Pisa, - St. Angelo, Corso, - Ancona, Bologna, PoH- castro, Asti, Rimini, Castiglione, Pescia, Cuneo, Trevino, Al-”
— A Grammar of American Surnames