Kopuz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: lute, lute-like instrument

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kopuz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kopuz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 19M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

10 people, 2007

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KopuzLatin(measured from records)
КопузCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

lute, lute-like instrument

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kopuz 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.

Where Kopuz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands101 in 1.7M10——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——
HR Croatia———Kopuz4
TR Türkiye———Kopuz3

10 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kopuz is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Копуз

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kopuz 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 Turkish, 1. Boğaz, dar yer. 2. Ozanların çaldığı eski bir telli Türk sazı.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In otk, a stringed instrument of the guitar type

    as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

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)

1850190019502000Fahri Kopuz, b. 1882Fethi Kopuz, b. 1915Dicle Kopuz, b. 1955Kılıçarslan Kopuz, b. 1977

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)

FormalSayın Kopuz,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Kopuz,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Kopuz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200710#64,694
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#347,890

Reference works 2

  • 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 Kopuz mean, and where does it come from?
lute, lute-like instrument Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kopuz?
A machine transcription gives /kopuz/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Kopuz have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 10 people named Kopuz, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kopuz most common?
Kopuz is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Kopuz?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10 people named Kopuz in 2007, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kopuz

The 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, “Kopuz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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