Hoffman

At the 2020 census, 124,557 Americans bore the surname Hoffman — 245th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,400.

By the numbers

People: 124,557
Rank: 245th
How common: 1 in 2,400
Per 100,000: 41.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Anglicised from German Hoffmann, an occupational surname referring to the owner or manager of a piece of land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hoffman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman (born 1937)American actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014)American actor
Jerzy Hoffman (born 1932)Polish film director
Robert Hoffman (born 1985)American actor
Abbie Hoffman (1936–1989)American activist
Rick Hoffman (born 1970)American actor
Reid Hoffman (born 1967)American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author
Alice Hoffman (born 1952)American novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

People named Hoffman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hoffman

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.