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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational or status name for someone who worked or lived at the principal farm on an estate, from Middle High German hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’ + stete ‘place’.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of various places called Hofstetten, in particular one in Bavaria.

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