The surname Hoffmeister
A German surname, carried by 1,431 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex H152
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from German Hoffmeister.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,431 people named Hoffmeister in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,755 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,398.
Who is named Hoffmeister
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Hoffmeister identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
- Hoffmaster
- Huffmaster
Surnames that sound like Hoffmeister
Hoffmeister has the Soundex code H152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H152.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hoffmeister come from?
- Borrowed from German Hoffmeister.
- How common is the surname Hoffmeister?
- 1,431 people in the United States had the surname Hoffmeister in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,755 Americans. It ranked 19,027th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hoffmeister?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hoffmeister identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Hoffmeister getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,398 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,431 in 2010, up 2.4%.
- What are other spellings of Hoffmeister?
- Hoffmaster and Huffmaster.