When Seymour Howard Koppel was born on 6 June 1926, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, his father, Harry Koppel, was 25 and his mother, Ethel Levine, was 21. He died on 29 November 2017, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin, Erna, Ernst, Gerd, Hanni. Jewish Morty, Uri, Yakov, Yetta, Zalmen.
North German, Dutch, and Estonian: from Middle Low German koppel, Middle Dutch coppel, German Koppel ‘enclosed common pasture’, hence a topographic name for someone living near such pasture, or possibly a status name for a commoner, i.e. someone who had the right to use such land for his livestock. Compare Coppel and Copple .
German (Silesia; Köppel): see Koeppel 1.
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