Last Name COPELAND

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Meaning	Local: Of Coupland, a township in the parish of Kirk Newton, county Northumberland. A large tract of country in Cumberland also bore this name. John de Coupland was the hero of the battle of Neville's Cross in 1346. He took David Bruce prisoner. No doubt he represented the Northumberland township.

Origin	English, Jewish, Native American, Irish, Belgian, South african

Rank	565 (2000 US census)	445 (1990 US census)

Count	53,771 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

68.57%, or 36871 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
27.32%, or 14690 total occurrences, as black,
0.34%, or 183 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.63%, or 339 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.69%, or 909 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.45%, or 780 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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