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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on the top of a hill, from Middle English coppe, Old English copp ‘summit’ (a transferred sense of copp ‘head’, ‘bowl’, cognate with modern English cup), or a habitational name from Copp in Lancashire, named with this word.
  • English : nickname for someone with a large or deformed head, from Middle English cop(p) ‘head’ (the same word as in 1 above).
  • Respelling of German Kopp.

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