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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : occupational name for a copper miner or copper smelter, Old Polish kopernik.
  • Polish : habitational name for someone from Koperniki in Opole voivodeship, named with kopr ‘copper’.
  • Polish : The Polish astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik (1473–1543), better known by his Latin name Copernicus, established that the earth revolves around the sun and prompted the eventual rejection of geocentric cosmology.

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