Cop
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cop is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 5.5K
- BEBelgium1 in 20K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
965 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Çöp in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
synonym of warkocz
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Cop is read(measured from records)
Cop is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French17%
a friend, a pal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cop in Turkish.
- Polish12%
synonym of warkocz
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cop in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cop 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.
965 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cop 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.
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Coptic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, summit (of a mountain or hill)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, to copy; to plagiarise
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)
- Nicolas Copb. 1501FRSwiss protestant reformer
- Michel Copb. 1501Swiss-French religious author
- Karel Copb. 1930CZCzech script editor and scriptwriter
- Gilles Copb. 1948CACanadian actor and author
- Maarten Copb. 2000BEBelgian actor
- Agnieszka Barbara Drosdzol-CopPLPolish gynecologist and obstetrician
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 600 | #2,469 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 557 | #2,698 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 265 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 265 | #12,317 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 241 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 241 | #13,733 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Cop come from?
- synonym of warkocz Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cop?
- In the etymology graph, Kopf, Copper and Coiffe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cop?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑp/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Cop mean?
- In English, To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
- In which country does Cop have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 965 people named Cop, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cop most common?
- Cop is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cop?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 965 people named Cop in 2021, 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/copThe 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, “Cop”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.