Coppinger is a surname of Norse origin historically associated with Ireland and the counties of Suffolk and Kent in England, and the seaboard of Northern France.

Coppinger
Origin
Region of originIreland and United Kingdom
Other names
Variant form(s)Copinger, Coppenger, Copenger, Coppynger, Copinsher
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While there are various spellings in historical documents, after more standardised spellings became established in the C18th the main variant was between Coppinger and Copinger. Whether an individual chose to use one or two ps seems to have been a question of personal preference which thereafter became a fixed tradition in their descendants.

Notable people

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Notable people with the surname include:

References

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  1. ^ House of Names:Coppinger
  2. ^ "Coppinger of Jutland".
  3. ^ Goodwin, Gordon (1891). "Howard, Charles (1746-1815)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. pp. 9–10.
  • History of the Copingers or Coppingers; W. A. Copinger; new enlarged ed. 1884 (traces the descent of the author's family from the Danes in the tenth century, when they appear to have settled in Suffolk and in the south of Ireland).

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