Cooper is actually an English name, but Jews have taken it, as they have so many other names when they try to "hide" in a nation when they are no longer wanted. Look at all the Russian Jewish names versus, German Jewish names, versus Polish and English Jewish names etc. Cooper is actually English, but the person of that surname may indeed be Jewish (or not).
Cooper can be English, Scottish, Irish, French, Russian and Ashkenazi Jewish. As strictly Anglo-Saxon it comes from the word for coop or hoop and is occupational. Its most common derivation is from Norman French and Ashkenazi Jewish cuopar, meaning one who works in copper (which may or may not have had to do with barrel bindings). The German form is Kuepfer. Coopers occur in Russia, Lithuania and the Ukraine because Ashkenazi Jews started out as a small population in northern France (overlapping with Normans) and a lot of Scotsmen went to Poland and Russia in the 16th and 17th century. This is why Gordon is also a Scottish and Ashkenazi Jewish name. My mother's family was Cooper and they were Jewish, originally Anglo-Norman.
The origin of the name cooper is from English. The surname origin is also English. This name is found to be used for both girl and boy name. The name coopers is known as an English occupational name for a person who makes and sell casks, buckets and tubs. Check this out for a great deal of information on the origin of name Cooper.
Name Meaning: Transferred use of the English surname that originated as an occupational name for a cooper, a cask or barrel maker or seller. It is derived from the Middle English couper (a cask) Shortened forms: Coop
This answer to the hatful answer guy not to all others so then where did all the christian names come from john johnson etc etc etc all christian names came from christ from judism as did your religion as did much of america culture as did the world if you really research it you would be amazed of course I know this writer knows all of this you were grafted into the jewish church werent christians? You shouldnt be angered by this because you are part of this! But of course this isn't going to change your mind is english related to hebrew? Google it jesus says do not harm a hair on there head he loved his people and loves you if your christian be carful what you say not for just other people s -- but for christs thoughts of you he said it so go on pick your leader you would choose hitler over jesus? Who are you going to meet after death?
Yes, my last name is Cooper and I take pride in my beliefs of being Jewish. Ever since I was a young boy my relatives have told me about horrifying tales of the concentration camp and how I would have never been born if the Nazis' found my mother pregnant with me. So for someone to say my last name is German scares me about that person.
