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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Hungarian : occupational name from kupec ‘merchant’, ‘shopkeeper’, a derivative of the Slavic verb kupit ‘to buy’.
  • Czech : from a reduced pet form of Jakub, Czech form of Jacob.

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