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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