Copelan Surname

509,669th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 642 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Copelan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Copelan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States6281:577,16447,275
Venezuela81:3,775,51036,567
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
England11:55,718,059489,080
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Honduras11:8,816,4429,272
Jamaica11:2,869,94713,896
Liberia11:4,408,53547,110
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England81:3,046,92180,371
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2191:229,30919,344

Copelan (17) may also be a first name.

Copelan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Copelan Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Copelan is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Copelan? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 509,669th most frequently used family name world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 11,351,318 people. This last name is mostly found in The Americas, where 81 percent of Copelan reside; 80 percent reside in North America and 80 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,694,839th most commonly held first name throughout the world. It is borne by 17 people.

The last name Copelan is most frequent in The United States, where it is held by 628 people, or 1 in 577,164. In The United States Copelan is mostly concentrated in: Georgia, where 41 percent live, South Carolina, where 6 percent live and North Carolina, where 4 percent live. Not including The United States this last name occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Venezuela, where 1 percent live and Ireland, where 0 percent live.

Copelan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Copelan has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 287 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 87 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Copelan Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Copelan surname are 33.4% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 80.17% registered to vote for the party.

Copelan earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 8.36% less than the national average, earning $39,542 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Copelan
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