Family name origins & meanings
- Polish : occupational name for a copper miner or copper smelter, Old Polish kopernik.
- Polish : habitational name for someone from Koperniki in Opole voivodeship, named with kopr ‘copper’.
- Polish : The Polish astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik (1473–1543), better known by his Latin name Copernicus, established that the earth revolves around the sun and prompted the eventual rejection of geocentric cosmology.