as a Last Name
- 16,033
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Hoffmann
Meaning & Origins
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a steward on an farm or estate, from German hof(f) ‘manorfarm’, ‘courtyard’ + Mann ‘man’. Originally, this was a status name for a farmer who owned his own land as opposed to holding it by rent or feudal obligation, but the name soon came to denote the manager or steward of a manor farm, in which sense it is extremely frequent throughout central and eastern Europe; also among Jews, since many Jews held managerial positions on non-Jewish estates. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, not only in German-speaking lands.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,033
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wisconsin
- has the most people named Hoffmann per capita
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