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Couper Family Crest & Name History

The last name Couper is a variant form of Cooper, an English family name. Its meaning, shared with Cooper, is “Barrel maker”.

  • Other spellings include Cowper and Copper.
  • The two spellings differ in a small detail: Couper has “u” where Cooper has “o”.
  • Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Heraldry and the Couper name

Arms linked to Cooper and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Couper surname pack.