Köpper

Name: Köpper: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: header (jump into water with one's head and arms ahead)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

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

CRCosta Rica1 in 18K(measured from records)
ATAustria≈1 in 44Kfew records
DEGermany≈1 in 94K

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 Köpper 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.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 176 (measured from records)
: 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kopper in US United States, DE Germany, BR Brazil and 3 more and Koepper in LR Liberia.

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

header (jump into water with one's head and arms ahead)

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Köpper 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 Köpper is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	—	≈890 est.	≈1 in 94K	—	Kopper	76
BR Brazil	—	492	1 in 430K	492	Kopper	46
US United States	—	354	1 in 940K	446	Kopper	176
GH Ghana	—	≈350 est.	≈1 in 97K	—	Kopper	3
CR Costa Rica	#475	279	1 in 18K	279	Kopper	26
AT Austria	—	≈210 est.	≈1 in 44K	—	Kopper	25
LR Liberia	—	≈43 est.	≈1 in 130K	—	Koepper	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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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

Köpper is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Estonian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Estonia
Also written Kõpper, Kopper
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Kopper
French surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States
Also written Kopper
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Poland
Also written Kopper

1 further group 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

Köpper 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, Berufsname: Aderlasser; zu Bezeichnungen für den Schröpf-/Kopfsetzner. Bearer count: 324.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname zum Aufsetzen von Schröpfköpfen / Aderlassen; 3 Types/324 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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

Michael Köpperb. 1966DEGerman association football player

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).

Evidence

3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Köpper mean, and where does it come from?: header (jump into water with one's head and arms ahead) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Köpper have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 890 people named Köpper in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kopper.
Where is Köpper most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Köpper is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Köpper?: In Brazil, the national register counted 492 people named Köpper, about 1 in 430 thousand residents.
How common is Köpper compared with other names?: In Costa Rica, Köpper is the 475th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B6pper

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 2026-10-13 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, “Köpper” — the 475th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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