Coupland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Copeland or Coupland’, place names meaning ‘purchased land’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkupɫənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coupland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 6Kas Copeland(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 24Kas Copeland
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27Kas Copeland
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Coupland 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
55,850 named Copeland, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Copeland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Copeland in US United States.
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)
‘person from Copeland or Coupland’, place names meaning ‘purchased land’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coupland 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 55,850as Copeland | 1 in 6K | 56K | Copeland | 32 |
| ES Spain | 47as Copeland | 1 in 1.1M | 47 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 41as Copeland | 1 in 136K | 41 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 32as Copeland | 1 in 171K | 32 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 31as Copeland | 1 in 24K | 31 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2as Copeland | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1as Copeland | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
55,850 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Coupland 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 English, A placename:
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)
- Sidney Couplandb. 1849GBEnglish physician
- Reginald Couplandb. 1884GBBritish historian
- Joe Couplandb. 1920GBScottish footballer (1920-1989)
- Diana Couplandb. 1932GBBritish actress (1928–2006)
- George Couplandb. 1959GBBritish plant scientist
- Douglas Couplandb. 1961CACanadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer (born 1961)
- Tiarnie Couplandb. 1997AUAustralian singer
- Antoine Couplandb. 2003CACanadian soccer player
- Mackenzie Couplandb. 2005AUAustralian cyclist
- Sarah CouplandAUAustralian clinical pathologist
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 540 | #40,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 525 | #44,135 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 472 | #43,157 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #71,642 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Coupland mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Copeland or Coupland’, place names meaning ‘purchased land’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Coupland?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkupɫənd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Coupland have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 56 thousand people named Copeland, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Coupland most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Coupland itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people named Copeland.
- How common is the name Coupland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 55,850 people named Copeland in 2010, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/couplandThe 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, “Coupland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.