Campion: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Campion is one more way Champion has been written over the centuries. Read literally, Campion points to “fighter”.

• From 1891 to 2000, 3,666 births in France were registered under Campion. In Spain, the INE population register lists 95 people with Campion as their first surname and 70 as their second. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname.
• Campion drops the “h” of Champion, a shortening that clerks often made.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Champion and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Campion family name pack.