Cooper Family History
- Cooper Name Meaning
- 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 kuper, a derivative of kup ‘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. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper). Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,937,618 Historical Documents with Cooper on Ancestry
- 4,146,871 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,904,464 Census and Voter Lists
- 373,853 Military Records
- 260,351 Immigration Records
- 6,252,079 Member Trees
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Number of Cooper families
 5,647 - 11,291  1,883 - 5,646 |
 1 - 1,882  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cooper families
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382 - 762 128 - 381 |
1 - 127 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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