Kopriva
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from kopriva ‘nettle’, either a topographic name for someone who lived at a place overgrown with nettles or a nickname for someone who was unapproachable
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/koprɪva/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Kopriva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 40K
- HRCroatia1 in 53K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,458 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from kopriva ‘nettle’, either a topographic name for someone who lived at a place overgrown with nettles or a nickname for someone who was unapproachable.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kopriva 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.
2,458 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling kopřiva. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Kopriva is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sla-pro, stinging nettle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, nettle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, kopriva; naziv i za ceitis australis u jadranskoj zoni
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)- Zdenek Koprivab. 1919CZHolocaust victim (born 1919)
- Ludek Koprivab. 1924CZCzech dubbing actor and actor (1924–2004)
- Sharon Koprivab. 1948USAmerican painter and sculptor (born 1948)
- Silvester Koprivab. 1948SISlovenian physician
- Zdenko KoprivaSIresearcher
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 506 | #45,537 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 467 | #45,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 467 | #43,546 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 120 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 80 | #9,438 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 72 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 52 | #7,456 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7 | #99,997 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 7 | #19,389 |
| 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 Kopriva mean, and where does it come from?
- from kopriva ‘nettle’, either a topographic name for someone who lived at a place overgrown with nettles or a nickname for someone who was unapproachable. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kopriva?
- In Czech /koprɪva/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kopriva have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kopriva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kopriva.
- Where is Kopriva most common?
- Kopriva is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kopriva?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,458 people named Kopriva, about 1 in 4.4 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/koprivaThe 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, “Kopriva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.