Coppola
Coppola is a family name .
Origin and meaning
Coppola is an originally professional Italian family name that named a manufacturer of coppolas , a type of hat. In the Neapolitan dialect, coppola means a small round hat. Frequent wearing of a corresponding hat can also have led to the name being given this name. The name was first recorded in the 11th century in Amalfi, southern Italy .
Name bearer
- Alicia Coppola (* 1968), American actress
- Anton Coppola (1917–2020), American musician and composer
- August Coppola (1934–2009), American professor of literature
- Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), American musician and composer
- Carmine Coppola (soccer player) (* 1979), Italian soccer player
- Chris Coppola (born 1962), American actor
- Claudia Coppola (* 1994), Italian tennis player
- Eleanor Coppola (* 1936), American filmmaker
- Ferdinando Coppola (* 1978), Italian football goalkeeper
- Francesco Paolo Coppola (1898–1982), Italian-American criminal
- Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939), American director
- Franco Coppola (* 1957), Catholic bishop
- Frank James Coppola (1944–1982), American executed murderer and police officer, fifth executed since the death penalty was resumed
- Gia Coppola (* 1987), American director
- Giacomo Coppola , Italian singer and conductor in Rome (Santa Maria Maggiore) at the time of the Renaissance (16th century)
- Gian-Carlo Coppola (1963–1986), American film actor and film producer
- Giovanni Andrea Coppola (1597–1659), Italian painter
- Horacio Coppola (1906–2012), Argentine photographer
- Imani Coppola (* 1978), American pop singer and rapper
- John Coppola (1929–2015), American jazz musician
- Laurent Coppola (* 1966), French drummer
- Michael Coppola (1900–1966), American gangster
- Nicholas Kim Coppola is the real name of Nicolas Cage
- Pietro Antonio Coppola (1793–1876), Italian composer and conductor
- Roman Coppola (born 1965), American director
- Sam Coppola (1932–2012), American actor
- Sofia Coppola (* 1971), American director and actress
- Steven Coppola (* 1984), American rower
- Tom Coppola (* 1945), American fusion musician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coppola on houseofnames.com (Engl.)