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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Copeland

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English and Scottish : habitational name from a place called Copeland, of which there is an example in Cumbria, or from Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.

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