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Updated August 16, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

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

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