Kopel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle Dutch coppel (Middle Low German koppel) ‘common pasture’, probably a topographic name for someone who lived by common land
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊpəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kopel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 494K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 47K
- PLPoland1 in 60K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
674 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from Middle Dutch coppel (Middle Low German koppel) ‘common pasture’, probably a topographic name for someone who lived by common land.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kopel 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 | 674 | 1 in 494K | 675 | Kopel | 178 |
| PL Poland | 641 | 1 in 60K | 330 | — | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Kopel | 14 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Kopel | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 479K | — | Kopel | 48 |
| CZ Czechia | 83 | 1 in 129K | 84 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Kopel | 3 |
674 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Kopel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, from Middle Dutch coppel ‘measure of dry goods’, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a merchant.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, from the Yiddish personal name kopl, from the German form of the Biblical name Jacob.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Slovenian, bath (act)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, couple
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)
- Jerzy Kopelb. 1940PLPolish sociologist
- Frank Kopelb. 1949GBScottish footballer (1949-2014)
- Dave Kopelb. 1960USAmerican journalist
- Michael Kopelb. 1963ATAustrian economist
- Scott Kopelb. 1970GBBritish footballer (born 1970)
- Elizabeth KopelPGPapuan researcher
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 675 | #32,202 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 674 | #33,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 664 | #36,294 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 330 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 330 | #10,068 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 311 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 311 | #10,491 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 84 | #8,360 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 83 | #19,562 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kopel mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle Dutch coppel (Middle Low German koppel) ‘common pasture’, probably a topographic name for someone who lived by common land. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kopel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊpəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kopel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 674 people named Kopel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kopel.
- How common is the name Kopel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 674 people named Kopel in 2010, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kopelThe 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, “Kopel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.