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Meaning & Origins
From the Latin word meaning ‘glory’, not used as a given name before the 20th century. It first occurs as the name of a character in George Bernard Shaw's play You Never Can Tell (1898), and was fairly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
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English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub’, ‘container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In America, the English name has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates and words with similar meaning in other European languages, for example Dutch Kuiper.
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Nicknames & variations
Glory, Glori, Glorie, Glora, Glor, Glorya, Glorai, Glorea, Glorio, Gloree
Coop, Copper, Cooperman, Chopra, Coopersmith, Cooprider, Cooperrider, Coopman, Cooperwood, Cooperstein
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