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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Köppel) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from a pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob).
  • Silesian : nickname, probably for someone with a small head, from a diminutive of German Kopf (Low German Kopp) ‘head’.

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