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copper Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Cooper, from Middle English copere, found from the 12th century alongside cupere.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for a worker in copper, Old English coper (Latin (aes) Cyprium ‘Cyprian bronze’).
  3. Respelling of German Kopper.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of copper Families in the US in 1920
Number of copper families
 43-83
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Jane Copper, Kent County jwdavis561 0
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Earl Copper family in NJ Bob Kenney, Riverside, NJ 1
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Margaret Ella (Bowden) Copper heidunn04 0
Copper's-Kent County MD jwdavis5 2
Coppers of Hancock and Madison Co. Indiana amuething 0
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