How common is the surname Coppola?

8,676 people in the United States had the surname Coppola in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,586 Americans. It ranked 4,091st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Coppola?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Coppola identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Coppola?

Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker (born 1939), followed by Sofia Coppola.

Where is the surname Coppola most common?

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

How do you pronounce Coppola?

Coppola is /ˈkoʊpələ/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Coppola getting more or less common?

More common. 8,439 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,676 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Coppola

An Italian surname, carried by 8,676 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈkoʊpələ/ 3 syllables Soundex C140

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coppola is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

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

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,676 people named Coppola in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 35,586 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,439.

#4,091

rank among US surnames

8,676

people in 2010

2.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,865)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,082	Slattery	8,695	35,508
#4,084	Testa	8,694	35,512
#4,085	Tennant	8,693	35,517
#4,086	Santoyo	8,692	35,521
#4,087	Peterman	8,690	35,529
#4,088	Clapp	8,689	35,533
#4,089	Pannell	8,687	35,541

Who is named Coppola

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Coppola identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Coppolas

15 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

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, born 1987
Alicia Coppola
American actress, born 1968
Anton Coppola
American conductor (1917–2020)
Sam Coppola
American actor (1932/1935–2012)
Steven Coppola
American rower, born 1984
Horacio Coppola
Argentine photographer (1906–2012)
August Coppola
American academic, author, film executive, and advocate for the arts, 1934–2009
Imani Coppola
American singer and musician, born 1978

Notable Coppolas come mostly from the United States (14) and Argentina (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Coppola

Coppola has the Soundex code C140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C140.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Coppola come from?: Borrowed from Italian Coppola, adapted from Sicilian Còppula, from còppula (“coppola cap, foreskin”).
How common is the surname Coppola?: 8,676 people in the United States had the surname Coppola in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 35,586 Americans. It ranked 4,091st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coppola?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Coppola identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Coppola?: Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker (born 1939), followed by Sofia Coppola.
Where is the surname Coppola most common?: Wikidata records people named Coppola in the United States and Argentina.
How do you pronounce Coppola?: Coppola is /ˈkoʊpələ/, 3 syllables.
Is the surname Coppola getting more or less common?: More common. 8,439 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,676 in 2010, up 2.8%.