Origin and popularity of the name COPE

Origin

Cope : 1: English (Midlands): from Middle English cope ‘cloak cape’ (from Old English cāp reinforced by the Old Norse cognate kápa) hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made cloaks or capes or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive one. Compare Cape.2: Americanized form of German Koob or Kopp.

Cape : 1: English (northern): metonymic occupational name for a maker of capes and cloaks or perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore a cloak or cape from Middle English and Old Norman French cape ‘cape cloak hooded cloak’ from Late Latin cappa capa probably a derivative of caput ‘head’ (see Capp). There is also an Old English word cāpe ‘cape cloak’ from the same Late Latin word but the normal development of this in southern England was Middle English cope (see Cope).2: French (Capé): nickname for someone who habitually wore a cape (see 1 above).

Hick : 1: English: of Norman origin from the Middle English personal name Hikke a rhyming pet form of Ricard a Norman-Picard form of Richard. The substitution of H- as the initial resulted from the inability of the English to cope with the velar Norman R-. Compare Hitch.2: German Flemish and Dutch: from Hicke a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with hild ‘strife battle’ as the first element.3: German: from a pet form (see Huck) of the personal name Hugo.

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