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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Coppull in Lancashire, recorded in the 13th century as Cophill, from Old English copp ‘peak’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  • English : nickname from Old French curt peil ‘short hair’.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Koppel or German and Dutch Kappel.

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