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hofstad Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and Belgian: habitational name from the common place name Hofsta(d)t or Hofstade, meaning a place (stad) where there was a farmstead.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, most of them so named from Old Norse hof ‘sacrificial temple’ + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The hofstad name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the hofstad family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of hofstad Families in the US in 1920
Number of hofstad families
 16-30
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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hoffstadt of york co pa cheryl sachan 3
Martin Hofstad b. 1835 Norway>IL>CA richard scott 0
Hofstad in SD speterson40 0
Othelia (Athelia) Hofstad/Thore Bakke/Iver Hofstad timandsueblinn 0
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