# Coppola (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/coppola/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,676 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,091 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 35,586 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.8% (8,439 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkoʊpələ/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Coppola, adapted from Sicilian Còppula, from còppula (“coppola cap, foreskin”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Coppola in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Coppola in the United States and Argentina.

## People named Coppola

- Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker (born 1939)
- Sofia Coppola, American filmmaker (born 1971)
- Carmine Coppola, American composer (1910-1991)
- Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker (1936–2024)
- Gia Coppola, American film director and screenwriter
- Alicia Coppola, American actress
- Anton Coppola, American conductor (1917–2020)
- Sam Coppola, American actor (1932/1935–2012)
- Steven Coppola, American rower
- Horacio Coppola, Argentine photographer (1906–2012)
- August Coppola, American academic, author, film executive, and advocate for the arts
- Imani Coppola, American singer and musician

and 3 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Copley, Copple, Chappell, Cable, Coble, Cabello, Chapple, Cavallo, Covell, Cappello, Cipolla, Chappel.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.