Copper
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) worker in copper, coppersmith; (ii) a different form of Cooper
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɒpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Copper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 104K
- IEIreland≈1 in 139K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)
3,211 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) worker in copper, coppersmith; (ii) a different form of Cooper.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Copper, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Copper 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,211 | 1 in 104K | 3.5K | Copper | 241 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 99K | listed | Copper | 95 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 455K | — | Copper | 9 |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 330K | — | Copper | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Copper | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | 106 | 1 in 163K | 106 | Copper | 15 |
| SG Singapore | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Copper | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Copper | 3 |
3,211 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Copper 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 English, from OE coper ‘copper’ or variant of cupere ‘cooper’; first attested Juliana la Copper 1275 SRWo
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
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)
- Thomas Copperb. 1851GBEnglish farmer and publican
- John Copperb. 1880GBEnglish shepherd and gardener
- Ronald Copperb. 1911GBEnglish carpenter and singer
- Basil Copperb. 1924GBBritish writer and journalist (1924-2013)
- John F. Copperb. 1940USAmerican scholar on International Studies
- Markus Copperb. 1968FIFinnish sculptor (1968-2019)
- Terrance Copperb. 1982USplayer of American football
- Michael Copperb. 1992USAmerican television personality
- Kahleah Copperb. 1994USAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
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 18 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,231 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 106 | #18,132 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Copper?
- In the etymology graph, Cop is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Copper mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) worker in copper, coppersmith; (ii) a different form of Cooper. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Copper?
- A machine transcription gives /kɒpə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Copper have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Copper, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled copper.
- How common is the name Copper?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,211 people named Copper in 2010, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/copperThe 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, “Copper”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.