Hofman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Hofmann (see Hoffmann)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɑfmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hofman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Germany it is the 4th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 499as Hoffmann
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4Kas Hofmann
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hofman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #495 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 556 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 named Hoffman, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hoffman in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CN China, Hoffmann in DE Germany, LU Luxembourg and Hofmann in AT Austria, CH Switzerland.
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)
variant of Hofmann (see Hoffmann).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hofman 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 | — | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Hoffman | 20 |
| DE Germany | #4 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 499 | listed | Hoffmann | 279 |
| US United States | #168 | 131,401as Hoffman | 1 in 2.5K | 133K | Hoffman | 556 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20,319as Hoffmann | 1 in 10K | 20K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | #329 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Hoffman | 197 |
| NL Netherlands | #56 | 10,000 | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | Hofman | 115 |
| CH Switzerland | #31 | 6,143as Hofmann | 1 in 1.4K | 6.1K | Hofmann | 106 |
| AT Austria | #21 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Hofmann | 115 |
| LU Luxembourg | #68 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 503 | 4.7K | Hoffmann | 66 |
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 2000; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wlastimil Hofmanb. 1881PLCzech artist (1881-1970)
- Vlastislav Hofmanb. 1884CZCzech artist and architect (1884-1964)
- Eduard Hofmanb. 1914PLCzech animator and director
- Genrikh Gofmanb. 1922RUnot in their usual nameSoviet pilot and writer
- Ota Hofmanb. 1928CZCzech playwright, scriptwriter and writer (1928–1989)
- Michel Hofmanb. 1958BEBelgian military officer
- Corinne Hofmanb. 1959NLDutch professor of Caribbean Archaeology
- Joanna Hofmanb. 1967PLPolish diplomat, actress
- Florentijn Hofmanb. 1977NLDutch artist (born 1977)
- Rogier Hofmanb. 1986NLDutch field hockey player
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 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 10K | #51 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,347 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #6,043 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Hofman mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Hofmann (see Hoffmann). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hofman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑfmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hofman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 415 thousand people named Hoffman in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hofman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hofman is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hofman?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10,000 people named Hofman in 2007, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Hofman compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hofman is the 4th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hofman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hofmanThe 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, “Hofman” — the 4th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.