Köppe

surname · Latin script

Meaning: nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kopp

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries

Pronunciation:

Köppe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

  • DEGermany≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 26K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 31K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Köppe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,700 people, est.

Record sources
161 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Koppe in DE Germany, BR Brazil, NL Netherlands and 1 more and Koeppe in US United States, NG Nigeria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kopp

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Köppe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Köppe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈3,700 est.≈1 in 23K—Koppe114
BR Brazil1,2391 in 171K1.2KKoppe3
US United States565as Koeppe1 in 589K576Koeppe161
NL Netherlands5601 in 31K560Koppe22
NG Nigeria≈330 est.≈1 in 716K—Koeppe4
FI Finland621 in 90K62—4
EE Estonia≈53 est.≈1 in 26Klisted—4
AG Antigua & Barbuda≈1 est.≈1 in 73K—Koppe1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Köppe is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Koppe

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Koppe

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Netherlands, Cameroon

    Also written Koppe, Koppé, Koppê

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Koppe

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Koppe

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Koppe

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Koppe

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Köppe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In li, to place a ball in the goal using your head

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1400160018002000Martinus Copus, b. 1554Hans Köppe, b. 1861Hugo Fischer-Köppe, b. 1890Walter Köppe, b. 1891Waldemar Köppe, b. 1952Ingrid Köppe, b. 1958Manuela Köppe, b. 1960

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Köppe, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Köppe mean, and where does it come from?
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kopp Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Köppe have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Köppe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koppe.
How common is the name Köppe?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,239 people named Köppe, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Köppe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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