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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’ + acker ‘field’, a very old field name in Württemberg, probably denoting a field owned by the feudal lord and cultivated on his behalf by his tenants. The surname would have denoted someone living by such a field.

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