Frequency: (499)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (Höfler): occupational name or status name for the owner or the manager of an estate, from an agent noun from Middle High German hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’ (see Hoffmann).
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Ewald, Kurt, Otto, Wenzel, Wolfgang.
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