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    Default What ethnicity is the surname 'Copenhaver'?

    I know people who have it.

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    Sounds like an Anglicized form of Kobenhavn, the Danish form of Copenhagen.

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    I thought it might have been German.

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    Anglicised version of the German surname Kobenhauer. I know someone with the surname who's a German-American but moved here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    I know people who have it.

    maybe from Københavner (inhabitant of ​København / Copenhagen)

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