After the Hungarian conquest, the area was part of the Zala estates of chieftain Koppány, hence the name of the settlement. The earliest written record of the area dates back to 1217 in the form of Kopan. In the Middle Ages, it formed the ancestral estate of the Bezerédi family of the clan Lőrente (with the neighbouring village of Bezeréd), its parish priest mentioned in 1419, so it must have had a church by then. The village remained populated during the Turkish occupation, owned by the Bezerédi, Fényes and Kozáry families.