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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, from Copping 2 + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Kapfinger, Gapfinger, or Kopfinger, habitational names for someone from a place named Kapfingen or Köpfingen, in southern Germany.

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