Coape: Surname History and Family Crest

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Cope surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

What Coape means

Your Coape ancestor may well appear as Cope in earlier records. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “cloak”.

Before spelling was fixed, Cope was also written Coape. The same family of names includes Copes.

Want more than a summary? See the Coape family name pack.