Family name origins & meanings
- Polish (Kopeć) : from Polish kopeć ‘smoke’, ‘soot’, probably a nickname for a dirty or swarthy person; or alternatively a metonymic occupational name for a chimneysweep or for someone who worked in a smokehouse.
- Variant of Hungarian Köpeci, a habitational name for someone from Köpec or Kepecz; or alternatively a topographic name from the archaic Székely dialect word göbec ‘pit’, ‘river bed’.