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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

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

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