Kopka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a reduced pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkoʊpkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kopka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 263Kas Копка
- CZCzechia1 in 45K
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 Kopka 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,547 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Копка in UA Ukraine.
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 a reduced pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kopka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3,547 | 1 in 11K | 1.8K | Kopka | 76 |
| US United States | 726 | 1 in 458K | 741 | Kopka | 27 |
| CZ Czechia | 237 | 1 in 45K | 237 | Kopka | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Kopka | 27 |
| IT Italy | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 340K | — | Kopka | 4 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Копка | 11 |
| SK Slovakia | 97 | 1 in 56K | 97 | Kopka | 14 |
| SE Sweden | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | Kopka | 6 |
3,547 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kopka 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 Polish, diminutive of kopa (“haystack”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, Plg. Kopkis (žr.). Galbūt sietina su vok. Kopke, Koopke : Jacobus (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 350).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latvian, slikti šūta žakete, mētelis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Auduma jaka
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Blūze
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Angeline Kopkab. 1916USAmerican politician
- Helmut Kopkab. 1932DEGerman physicist and author (1932-2009)
- Ivo Kopkab. 1958CZCzech soccer player
- Joachim Kopkab. 1962researcher
- Jan Kopkab. 1963CZCzech biker
- Bogusław Tadeusz Kopkab. 1969PLPolish historian
- Lech KopkaPLPolish cardiologist
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,558 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 741 | #29,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 726 | #31,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 701 | #34,739 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 237 | #7,096 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 236 | #5,143 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 97 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #14,274 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 Kopka mean, and where does it come from?
- from a reduced pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kopka?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊpkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kopka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Kopka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kopka.
- Where is Kopka most common?
- Kopka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kopka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,547 people named Kopka in 2026, about 1 in 11 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/kopkaThe 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, “Kopka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.