Kopman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a clever person, from Yiddish kop ‘head’ + man ‘man’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kopman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Haiti it is the 89th most common surname. Kopman is also written Копман in Cyrillic.
- FIFinland1 in 49K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 94K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 160Kfew records
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 Kopman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
8,347 named Koopman, 2007
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kopman in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Köpman in SE Sweden.
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)nickname for a clever person, from Yiddish kop ‘head’ + man ‘man’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kopman is found
(measured from records)Kopman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 8,347as Koopman | 1 in 2.1K | 8.3K | Kopman | 6 |
| US United States | — | 2,417as Koopman | 1 in 138K | 2.5K | Kopman | 134 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Kopman | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | 156as Koopman | 1 in 75K | 156 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 114 | 1 in 49K | 114 | Kopman | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 109 | 1 in 94K | 109 | Köpman | 2 |
| HT Haiti | #89 | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Kopman | 1 |
8,347 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007, counting the spelling koopman. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Bernhard Kopmanb. 1250politician
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kopman mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a clever person, from Yiddish kop ‘head’ + man ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kopman?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Koopman, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, South Africa, Belgium and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kopman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kopman is densest in Finland — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kopman?
- In Finland, the national register counted 114 people named Kopman, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Kopman compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Kopman is the 89th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kopman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kopmanThe 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, “Kopman” — ranked 69th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.