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hoffman Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hoffmann ‘steward’.
  2. Dutch: occupational name for a farm laborer or a gardener, someone who worked at the hof, the manor farm.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hoffman Families in the US in 1920
Number of hoffman families
 2122-4241
 708-2121		 1-707
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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