Last name: COPELAND
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COPELAND : This last name is indexed 113,015 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COPELAND : English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’ a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages when land was rarely sold but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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