English: from a reduced pet form of the personal name
Jacob.
French: nickname for a good neighbor or amiable
fellow worker, from Old French compain ‘companion’, ‘fellow’
(Late Latin companio ‘messmate’, genitive companionis,
from con- ‘together’ + panis ‘bread’).
Possibly also
Irish or Scottish: reduced form of McCoppin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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