Coppola
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘maker of berets’, or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone who wore such headgear
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊˈpoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coppola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 35K
- USUnited States1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 380 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘maker of berets’, or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone who wore such headgear.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Coppola is read(measured from records)
Coppola is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
‘maker of berets’, or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone who wore such headgear.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Francis Ford, US film director
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Coppola in Spanish.
- Italian13%
tweed cap (flat hat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ALTERATI € DERIVATI: Coppolélli, Coppolétta e Coppolétti, Coppolino, Coppolécchia, Coppolone; Coppolaro. Z Proprio del Sud, e molto frequente (a Napoli é il pit frequente dopo Esposito e Russo), ha alla base soprannomi scherzosi 0 nomi di mestiere formati o derivati dalla voce italiana cOppola “berretto tondo” (copricapo caratteristico e popolare del Sud).
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
da Giacomo
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
de Coppa com sufixo feminino -ola; ligado ao barrete siciliano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coppola 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Coppola | 107 |
| CN China | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Coppola | 2 |
| US United States | 8,676 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Coppola | 380 |
| AR Argentina | 2,396 | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Coppola | 111 |
| UY Uruguay | 1,154 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.2K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 409 | 1 in 21K | 409 | Coppola | 18 |
| IS Iceland | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Coppola | 2 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carmine Coppolab. 1910USAmerican composer (1910-1991)
- Italia Coppolab. 1912USMother of Francis Ford Coppola (1912-2004)
- Eleanor Coppolab. 1936USAmerican documentary filmmaker (1936–2024)
- Francis Ford Coppolab. 1939USAmerican filmmaker (born 1939)
- Nicolas Cageb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1964)
- Roman Coppolab. 1965FRfilmmaker, son of Francis Ford Coppola (born 1965)
- Piera Coppolab. 1968USAmerican actress
- Alicia Coppolab. 1968USAmerican actress
- Sofia Coppolab. 1971USAmerican filmmaker (born 1971)
- Gia Coppolab. 1987USAmerican film director and screenwriter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,091 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.1K | #4,258 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 409 | #3,217 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Coppola mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘maker of berets’, or from a medieval Italian nickname for someone who wore such headgear. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Coppola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Coppola in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coppola.
- How do you pronounce Coppola?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊˈpoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Coppola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,676 people named Coppola in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coppolaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Coppola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.