Hoff Family History
Hoff Name Meaning
North German, Dutch, and Danish: topographic name or status
name for the owner of a farm, or occupational name for someone who
worked on the main farm in a community, from Middle High and Low
German hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’, or habitational name from
any of the many places named with this word. JXE Compare
Hofer.Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous
farmsteads named Hov, from Old Norse hof ‘sacrificial temple’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hoff Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hoff families
 157 - 311  53 - 156 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hoff families
|
34 - 66 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hoff families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hoff census records
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Hoff Family Origin
Hoff Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hoff
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Hoff Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hoff census records
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Hoff Civil War Service Records
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