as a Last Name
- 306,178
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cooper
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 63rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Coop, Copper, Cooperman, Chopra, Coopersmith, Cooprider, Cooperrider, Coopman, Cooperwood, Cooperstein
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 306,178
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Cooper per capita
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