Hoff Family History
- Hoff Name Meaning
- North German, Dutch, and Danish: topographic name or status name for the owner of a farm, or occupational name for someone who worked on the main farm in a community, from Middle High and Low German hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’, or habitational name from any of the many places named with this word. Compare Hofer. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Hov, from Old Norse hof ‘sacrificial temple’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 631,770 Historical Documents with Hoff on Ancestry
- 273,565 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 98,657 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,804 Military Records
- 21,656 Immigration Records
- 211,088 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Hoff families
 34 - 66  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hoff families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hoff census records
You can see how Hoff families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Hoff immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Hoff families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the Canadian Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Hoff immigration records
You can find out when most of the Hoff families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Hoff census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Hoff ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Hoffs fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×