How common is the surname Kopec?

2,639 people in the United States had the surname Kopec in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,993 Americans. It ranked 11,865th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kopec?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Kopec identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kopec getting more or less common?

More common. 2,623 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,639 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Kopec

A Polish surname, carried by 2,639 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K120

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kopec is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Borrowed from Polish Kopeć.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,639 people named Kopec in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,993 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,623.

#11,865

rank among US surnames

2,639

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #11,105)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,856	Stage	2,641	116,905
#11,863	Bodie	2,640	116,949
#11,865	Kopec	2,639	116,993
#11,870	Douthit	2,638	117,038
#11,874	Bousquet	2,637	117,082

Who is named Kopec

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

97% of people named Kopec identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kopec

Kopec has the Soundex code K120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K120.

Other Polish surnames

All 304 Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kopec come from?: Borrowed from Polish Kopeć.
How common is the surname Kopec?: 2,639 people in the United States had the surname Kopec in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,993 Americans. It ranked 11,865th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kopec?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Kopec identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kopec getting more or less common?: More common. 2,623 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,639 in 2010, up 0.6%.