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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Höft) : from Middle Low German hovet, höft ‘head’, applied as a nickname or topographic name.
  • German (Höft) : habitational name from places named Höft in Westphalia or near Linz in Austria.

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