Sudhoff
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from sud-/süd- 'south' + Hof 'farmstead, court'; bearer count 584
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsədˌhɔf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sudhoff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 105K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- CNChina≈1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from sud-/süd- 'south' + Hof 'farmstead, court'; bearer count 584.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sudhoff counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Sudhoff | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Sudhoff | 80 |
| US United States | 320 | 1 in 1M | 334 | Sudhoff | 123 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Sudhoff | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Sudhoff | 10 |
| IE Ireland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 749K | — | Sudhoff | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Sudhoff | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sudhoff is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: von einem Orts-/Wohnstättennamen mit Süd- + Hof; 584 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karl Sudhoffb. 1820LUGerman theologian
- Karl Sudhoffb. 1853DEGerman historian (1853–1938)
- Willie Sudhoffb. 1874USAmerican baseball player
- Jürgen Sudhoffb. 1935DEGerman politician, diplomat and civil servant
- Ingrid Sudhoffb. 1965DEGerman medieval archaeologist
- Ann-Cathrin Sudhoffb. 1972DEGerman actress
- Stefan Sudhoffb. 1977linguist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 320 | #62,531 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 283 | #65,492 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sudhoff mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from sud-/süd- 'south' + Hof 'farmstead, court'; bearer count 584. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Sudhoff?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsədˌhɔf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sudhoff have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Sudhoff in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sudhoff.
- How common is the name Sudhoff?
- In the United States, the national register counted 320 people named Sudhoff in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sudhoffThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sudhoff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.