Southern Italian: from Neapolitan dialect coppola, denoting
a type of beret characteristic of the region, hence either a nickname
for a habitual wearer of such headgear, or a metonymic occupational
name for a beret maker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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