The copp Surname
copp Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name for someone who lived on the top of a hill, from Middle English coppe, Old English copp ‘summit’ (a transferred sense of copp ‘head’, ‘bowl’, cognate with modern English cup), or a habitational name from Copp in Lancashire, named with this word.
- English: nickname for someone with a large or deformed head, from Middle English cop(p) ‘head’ (the same word as in 1 above).
- Respelling of German Kopp.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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