Tracing the Koopman Family Name

Search old registers for Koopman and you will soon meet Koopmann too. Read literally, Koopman points to “Merchant, trader”. Koopman drops the “n” of Koopmann, a shortening that clerks often made. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. You may also find the name written Kopmann.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Koopman with 2,417 bearers, at rank 12,766. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Koopman, so the heraldry linked to Koopmann is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Koopman report, with a museum-style coat of arms.