American Family Name Origins:
Saathoff
Frequency: (859)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North German (Westphalian): 1. habitational name for someone working or living at a farm named with Middle Low German sāt ‘seed’ + hof ‘farmstead’. 2. status name for someone whose holding (Middle Low German sate, ‘sāt’ ‘settlement’, ‘land’) extended to one Hufe, an old measure of land.
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