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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from koper ‘dill’, ‘fennel’, a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of herbs and spices.
  • German (also Köper) : occupational name from Middle Low German kopere ‘salesman’, ‘dealer’, ‘merchant’.
  • German (Köper) : variant of Küpper (see Kupper).
  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a coppersmith, from Dutch koper ‘copper’.

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