Subscribe >
Help
Member Login
Username Password (Forgot?)
Look up another surname
The cooper Surname

cooper Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kuper, a derivative of kup ‘tub’, ‘container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In America, the English name has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates and words with similar meaning in other European languages, for example Dutch Kuiper.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper).
  3. Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Learn the meaning and history of your first name
Share this page with friends and family

The cooper name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the cooper family name as far back in history as possible.

cooper Family Facts

Are you a Facebook user? Add cooper family facts to your Facebook profile.
Distribution of cooper Families in the US in 1920
Number of cooper families
 1363-2724
 455-1362		 1-454
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

Click on a state to view cooper census records

Year

How is this helpful?

  • You can decide where (in which states) to start searching for cooper records.
  • You can see how cooper families moved over time by selecting different Census years.

What do I do next?

The information for this map came from Ancestry.com’s US Federal Census Collection.
  • Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, residence and occupation.
  • Click here to search cooper census records.

More resources for your cooper family history

Start your FREE family tree. We'll start searching.

Enter a few simple facts about your family. We'll use what you enter to try and find more.

Begin your family tree with your name:


Member Connections

More Tools and Resources