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cope Name Meaning and History

English (common in the Midlands): from Middle English cope ‘cloak’, ‘cape’ (from Old English cap reinforced by the Old Norse cognate kápa), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made cloaks or capes, or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive one. Compare Cape.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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cope Family Facts

Distribution of cope Families in the US in 1920
Number of cope families
 174-346
 59-173		 1-58
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 467 - Messages: 1591
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Fred Cope carole 3
John Wesley Cope earles8602 14
COPE Katherine Tootsie and Frank M t42Moore 0
COPE Marie 1939-1993 t42Moore 0
John Cope of IN or OH Catherine Shanahn 13
Charlie Cope bakerjeb 3
John Wesley Cope wparkhurst1 27
Cope - UK Mailing List BevSymons 3
Looking for family. robeco7 0
Mary A Cope Schantzenbach obit ayla13 1
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