Küpper

Name: Küpper: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: Berufsname zum Küper/Kuper ‘Böttcher, Fassbinder’; mit Umlaut- und -er-Variante

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/cʰʏpʰɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common

DEGermany≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 481K
CHSwitzerland1 in 25K

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.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 209 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kupper in US United States, CH Switzerland, BE Belgium and 2 more and Kuepper in BR Brazil.

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

recorded in German

Berufsname zum Küper/Kuper ‘Böttcher, Fassbinder’; mit Umlaut- und -er-Variante. Bearer count: 3236.

Cited for this meaning 1

Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Küpper 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 Küpper is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	#796	≈5,300 est.	≈1 in 15K	listed	Küpper	102
US United States	—	691	1 in 481K	882	Kupper	209
BR Brazil	—	430	1 in 492K	430	Kuepper	3
CH Switzerland	—	343	1 in 25K	343	Kupper	34
BE Belgium	—	272	1 in 43K	281	Kupper	22
AT Austria	—	≈85 est.	≈1 in 104K	—	Kupper	27
EE Estonia	—	≈40 est.	≈1 in 30K	listed	Kupper	6

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 2020; the dfa-band-3 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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

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

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Kupper
Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Spain
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Also written Kupper
Danish surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Denmark, United States
Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Also written Kupper
French surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Switzerland
Also written Kupper
Croatian surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia
Languages: Croatian, Slovenian
Also written Kupper
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, United States
Also written Kupper
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Egypt
Also written Kupper

12 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

Küpper is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In German, Berufsname zum Küfer/Fassmacher, von mnd. kupe 'großes Fass'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname auf -er; häufig als sekundäres Patronym im starken Genitiv -s verwendet. Morphologisch: Berufsname mit genitivischer Form -ers.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Berufsname, aus der Bezeichnung für den Küfer/Böttcher; dialektale Varianten zu Küfer/Küper. Bearer count: 3209.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Varianz -er/-ler/-ner/-ker in Berufsnamen; cluster Küpper/Küppers/Küper/Kuper/Küpker.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Berufsname: Küfer/Fassmacher; 8842 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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

Heinz Küpperb. 1935DEGerman politician
Willi Küpperb. 1942DEGerman economist
Hans-Ulrich Küpperb. 1945DEGerman economist
Tassilo Küpperb. 1947DEGerman mathematician
Norbert Küpperb. 1964DEGerman artist, graphic artist, painter and musician
Jochen Küpperb. 1971DEGerman chemist and physicist
Petruța Küpperb. 1981RORomanian musician
Katharina Küpperb. 1985DEGerman actress
Eileen KüpperZAsinger
Eva Küpperscreenwriter

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

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Küpper, (English)

InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence

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

Official registers attesting Küpper
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
BE Belgium	Statbel — Noms de famille (family names)	—	281	#6,168
BE Belgium	Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)	2008	272	#6,147
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	49	#18,963
DE Germany	Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Küpper?: A machine transcription gives /cʰʏpʰɐ/ (IPA) for German.
What does the name Küpper mean?: Recorded meaning: Berufsname zum Küper/Kuper ‘Böttcher, Fassbinder’; mit Umlaut- und -er-Variante.
In which country does Küpper have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Küpper in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled küpper.
How common is the name Küpper?: In the United States, the national register counted 691 people named Küpper in 2010, about 1 in 481 thousand residents.
How common is Küpper compared with other names?: In Germany, Küpper is the 796th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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 2026-10-13 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, “Küpper” — the 796th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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