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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kupfermann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a coppersmith or someone in the copper trade, from Middle High German kupfer, German Kupfer ‘copper’ + Middle High German man, German Mann ‘man’.

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