Copcutt is recorded alongside Copcut, Copcott, Copcote, Copcoate, Copcot, Copcoat and Cobcott-type forms. The archive indexes them without pretending every similarly spelled modern surname is necessarily the same lineage.
Antoni Copcote, 1561, Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. John Copcote also appears in London parish material in 1566.
Ralph Copcott, 1588, Pirton, Hertfordshire; Reynold Copcot/Copcott, 1608, London.
Henry Cobcott, 1599, St Martin in the Fields; Raphe Cobcot, 1618, Dinton, Buckinghamshire.
Wilbore Copcoate, 1605, Maulden, Bedfordshire; Wm Copcoat, 1614, Cheshunt.
Francis Copcut, 1751, Westminster.
William Copcutt, 1772, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; the spelling that later became the principal modern form in our research.