Kopke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Low German pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkoʊpk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kopke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 107Kas Koepke
- BRBrazil1 in 302K
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 Kopke 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Koepke, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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 Koepke in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa, SA Saudi Arabia and 1 more and Köpke in DE Germany.
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 Low German pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kopke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Koepke | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Köpke | 108 |
| US United States | 3,106as Koepke | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Koepke | 262 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Koepke | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 700 | 1 in 302K | 700 | Kopke | 3 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Koepke | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Kopke | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Kopke is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, 188 Bearer; nicht kartiert, wohl slaw. Form statt nd. Koseform; wohl zu niedersorb. kopa 'Schock' oder kopka 'Grenzhaufen'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In Western Frisian, diminutive of kop
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)
- Diogo Kopkeb. 1808PTPortuguese journalist, writer, teacher and mathematician
- Günter Kopckeb. 1935DEnot in their usual nameart historian and academic
- Cristiana Kopkeb. 1953PTPortuguese lyricist, composer and singer
- Toolekob. 2002DEnot in their usual nameGerman YouTuber (born 2002)
- Matthew Kopkeveterinary 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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 700 | #12,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 493 | #43,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 480 | #42,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 478 | #47,785 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kopke mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Low German pet form of the personal name Jakob (see Jacob). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kopke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊpk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kopke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Koepke in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kopke?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 700 people named Kopke, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kopke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kopkeThe 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, “Kopke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.