Campos surname meaning

Campos is a Spanish and Portuguese surname built from the landscape word for fields or open country. It is commonly treated as a topographic or habitational name for someone who lived near fields or came from a locality called Campos, including the Castilian Tierra de Campos region. The word ultimately goes back to Latin campus, an open plain, though Romance usage broadened it to cultivated land. Campo, Del Campo, Ocampo, and Docampo show related singular or regional forms. Place is the high-confidence catalog type; the broad landscape term also explains why separate Campos families could arise independently.