HÖfner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Vowel variation plate shows Hö/oe vs Ho; Herkunftsname zu Siedlungsname Höfer bei Celle oder Berufsname zu mnd
/høːfnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
HÖfner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Mas Hoefner
- ATAustria≈1 in 71K
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 HÖfner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoefner in US United States, IT Italy, NZ New Zealand and 2 more.
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)
Vowel variation plate shows Hö/oe vs Ho; Herkunftsname zu Siedlungsname Höfer bei Celle oder Berufsname zu mnd. hov(en)er 'Hufner, Hufenbesitzer'; 1438 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
HÖfner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | HÖfner | 62 |
| US United States | 194as Hoefner | 1 in 1.7M | 199 | Hoefner | 134 |
| AT Austria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | HÖfner | 22 |
| KE Kenya | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 779K | — | Hoefner | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Hoefner | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 32 | 1 in 334K | 32 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 752K | — | Hoefner | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Hoefner | 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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
HÖfner 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, Herkunftsname zu Hof; Karte demonstriert Umlaut- vs. nicht-Umlaut-Formen. 3,47‰ in PLZ 963, 0,65‰ in PLZ 987, 0,63‰ in PLZ 896, 0,54‰ in PLZ 965.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Ableitung zu mhd. hof; zeigt ö/o-Variation. Schweiz: 2+22.
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)
- Gabriel Höfner seniorb. 1842ATAustrian entomologist
- Maria Höfnerb. 1900ATuniversity teacher, orientalist, translator, historian (1900-1992)
- Hans Höfnerb. 1912ATcyclist
- Ernst Höfnerb. 1929DEGerman politician (1929-2009)
- Ernst Höfnerb. 1957DEGerman ice hockey player
- Jürgen Höfnerb. 1957German swimming coach
- Susanne Höfnerb. 1967SESwedish astronomer
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 32 | #39,379 |
Reference works 2
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce HÖfner?
- A machine transcription gives /høːfnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name HÖfner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vowel variation plate shows Hö/oe vs Ho; Herkunftsname zu Siedlungsname Höfer bei Celle oder Berufsname zu mnd.
- In which country does HÖfner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named HÖfner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled HÖfner.
- How common is the name HÖfner?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 32 people named HÖfner, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about HÖfner?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B6fnerThe 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, “HÖfner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.