Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : status name for a steward on an farm or estate (see Hoffmann).
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : status name for a prosperous small farmer, from an agent noun derivative of Middle Low German huove, a measure of land. Compare German Huber.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hofner, habitational name from any of several places called Hof.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Hopfer.