Westhoff
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from west + Hof 'farmstead, court'; bearer count 2167
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Westhoff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 156K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 26K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from west + Hof 'farmstead, court'; bearer count 2167.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Westhoff 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Westhoff | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Westhoff | 93 |
| US United States | 2,131 | 1 in 156K | 2.1K | Westhoff | 250 |
| NL Netherlands | 646 | 1 in 27K | 646 | Westhoff | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 287K | 86 | Westhoff | 57 |
| AT Austria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Westhoff | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 41 | 1 in 143K | 41 | Westhoff | 25 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Westhoff is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: west- + Hof/Hoff; Wohnstättenname bzw. Ortsnamebezug, mit 4644 Trägern.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, zu West+Hof; zeigt -hoff/-hof-Kürzung. 1115 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
- Johann Paul von Westhoffb. 1656DEGerman composer
- Fritz Westhoffb. 1857DEGerman writer, biologist and zoologist (1857–1896)
- Clara Westhoffb. 1878DEGerman sculptor (1878-1954)
- Victor Westhoffb. 1916NLDutch botanist (1916–2001)
- Justin Westhoffb. 1948DEGerman journalist
- Denis Westhoffb. 1962FRFrench photographer
- Angie Westhoffb. 1966DEchildren's writer
- Ralf Westhoffb. 1969DEGerman film director and screenwriter
- Justin Westhoffb. 1986AUAustralian rules footballer
- Matthew Westhoffb. 1988AUAustralian rules footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,054 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 646 | #2,880 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 86 | #36,388 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 41 | #12,548 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Westhoff mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from west + Hof 'farmstead, court'; bearer count 2167. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Westhoff have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Westhoff in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled westhoff.
- How common is the name Westhoff?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,131 people named Westhoff in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/westhoffThe 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, “Westhoff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.