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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English copman, from Old Norse kaupma{dh}r, cognate with Old English cēapmann (see Chapman). Kaupma{dh}r is also found as a personal name in England, and this use may lie behind some cases of the surname.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of North German Koopmann or Dutch Coopman.

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