Ocampo
A Spanish and Filipino surname originally written as a place name, meaning “from the field” or “from the countryside.”
The #1,374 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 12,004 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Ocampo is a Spanish surname built from the preposition "o" plus "campo," meaning "field" or "countryside." In form, it looks like a locational surname, originally referring to someone associated with a place called Ocampo or described as coming “from the field.” Because the excerpt provided mentions the surname only in passing and not as a direct entry, this explanation rests on the standard Spanish place-name pattern rather than on a specific dictionary claim about this exact surname.
History
The surname is well established in the Spanish-speaking world and is especially common in Spain and in former Spanish colonies, including the Philippines and Latin America. As with many Spanish surnames, it likely spread through ordinary hereditary use from a place-based byname into a fixed family name. The name is also carried by several notable public figures in the Philippines and Latin America.
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Fun fact
In Spanish, "campo" can suggest not just a literal field but the open countryside, so the name has a distinctly rural flavor.
From the historical record
“GuzMAN. Muchos son los escritores que lian tratado de investigar el origen de este apellido: Ambrosio de Morales, Florian de Ocampo, Pru- dencio de Sandoval y otros menos nombrados. Lope de Vega no creyó poder eximirse de decir algo sobre la cuestión : «Hay competencia entre los escritores de España, dice, sobre…”
— Ensayo histórico etimológico filológico sobre los apellidos castellanos