Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : from Middle Dutch coppel ‘measure of dry goods’, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a merchant.
- Dutch : from Middle Dutch coppel (Middle Low German koppel) ‘common pasture’, probably a topographic name for someone who lived by common land.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name kopl, from the German form of the Biblical name Jacob.