The kopf Surname
kopf Name Meaning and History
- German: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of cups or flasks, from Middle High German kopf ‘flask’ (from Late Latin cuppa ‘cask’).
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with some noticeable peculiarity or deformity of the head, from Middle High German kopf (the same word as in 1, used in a transferred sense which during the Middle Ages gradually ousted the earlier word houbet ‘head’), German Kopf.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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