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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname from kopa ‘dozens’, ‘stack’.
  • Polish : occupational name for someone who cleared woodland for cultivation, from a derivative of kopać ‘to dig’.
  • Czech, Slovak, and Eastern German : from a pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob).

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