Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Hoefer

    A surname, carried by 2,375 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H160

    Hoefer: #12,935 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hoefer #12,935, 2,375 people Hoefer: #12,935 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hoefer #12,935, 2,375 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hoefer is more common than 92% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,375 people named Hoefer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 129,998 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,290.

    #12,935
    rank among US surnames
    2,375
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #12,430)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,927Riggleman2,378129,834
    #12,929Hause2,377129,889
    #12,931Sanson2,376129,943
    #12,935Marden2,375129,998
    #12,941Ladue2,374130,053
    #12,944Steffey2,373130,108

    Who is named Hoefer

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Hoefer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hoefer

    Hoefer has the Soundex code H160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hoefer?
    2,375 people in the United States had the surname Hoefer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,998 Americans. It ranked 12,935th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hoefer?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hoefer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hoefer getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,290 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,375 in 2010, up 3.7%.