# Hoff (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hoff/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 17,223 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,103 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 17,926 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.1% (17,408 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hoff in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hoff in the United States.

## People named Hoff

- Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopher (born 1950)
- Marcian Hoff, American electrical engineer
- Katie Hoff, American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
- Nicholas J. Hoff, American aeronautical engineer (1906–1997)
- Christian Hoff, American actor
- Benjamin Hoff, American writer
- Philip H. Hoff, American politician (1924–2018)

## Similar surnames

Huff, Haff, Hopf, Hope, Hoppe, Hovey, Hupp, Hipp, Hopp, Hobby, Hebb, Hove.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.