Kopelman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Yiddish personal name Kopiman, a variant of kopl (see Kopel), with the addition of -man ‘man’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊpəɫmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kopelman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 35Kas קופלמן(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 495Kas Koppelman
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
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 Kopelman 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
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
672 named Koppelman, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled קופלמן in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 1 more.
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 the Yiddish personal name Kopiman, a variant of kopl (see Kopel), with the addition of -man ‘man’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kopelman 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 | 672as Koppelman | 1 in 495K | 715 | Kopelman | 201 |
| NL Netherlands | 600as Koppelman | 1 in 29K | 600 | Kopelman | 3 |
| RO Romania | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | קופלמן | 2 |
| IL Israel | 251as קופלמן | 1 in 35K | 251 | קופלמן | 23 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Kopelman | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | קופלמן | 1 |
| LV Latvia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | קופלמן | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 20 | 1 in 2.3M | 20 | Kopelman | 18 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 7 | — | 1 |
672 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling koppelman. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
- Dave Elmanb. 1900USnot in their usual nameAmerican hypnotist (1900–1967)
- Yitzchock Dov Kopelmanb. 1909CHSwiss rabbi (1909-2011)
- Myron Copeb. 1929USnot in their usual nameAmerican sports journalist (1929-2008)
- Raoul Kopelmanb. 1933USscientist, inventor, and is currently the Richard Smalley Distinguished University Professor
- Arie L. Kopelmanb. 1938USAmerican businessman
- Irene Kopelmanb. 1974ARArgentine-Dutch artist (1974)
- Liat Levi-Kopelmanb. 1976ILIsraeli journalist, editor and author
- Will Kopelmanb. 1978USAmerican actor
- Olive Kopelmanb. 2012USAmerican actress
- Frankie Kopelmanb. 2014USAmerican actress
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 | 442 | #47,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 423 | #52,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 395 | #49,869 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 20 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #13,677 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kopelman mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Yiddish personal name Kopiman, a variant of kopl (see Kopel), with the addition of -man ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kopelman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊpəɫmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kopelman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 672 people named Koppelman, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kopelman?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 20 people named Kopelman, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kopelman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kopelmanThe 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, “Kopelman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.