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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Koppenreuter or Kuppelreuter, habitational names for someone from a place named in Middle Low German or Middle High German with koppel ‘pasture’ (originally denoting a fenced area of grazing land in multiple ownership) + riute ‘cleared land’.

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