Copeland

Copeland is the 619th most common surname in the United States, shared by 53,472 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,590.

By the numbers

People: 53,472
Rank: 619th
How common: 1 in 5,590
Per 100,000: 17.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Copeland described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 63.3%
Black, not Hispanic 27.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Copeland

Stewart Copeland (born 1952)American drummer and composer
Misty Copeland (born 1982)American ballet dancer
Lillian Copeland (1904–1964)athletics competitor
Ralph Copeland (1837–1905)British astronomer
Herbert Faulkner Copeland (1902–1968)American biologist
Joan Copeland (1922–2022)American actress
Chris Copeland (born 1984)American basketball player
Katherine Copeland (born 1990)British rower

People named Copeland with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Copeland

Also a first name

Copeland has been given to 1,479 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.