# Hofmann (surname)

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

A surname

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 9,192 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,857 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 33,589 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.2% (8,824 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hofmann 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) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hofmann in Austria, Germany, the United States, Switzerland and the Russian Empire.

## People named Hofmann

- Otto Hofmann, Austrian-born German SS general, head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (1896-1982
- Leopold Hofmann, Austrian footballer (1905-1976)
- Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer
- Willi Hofmann, bobsledder
- Isabella Hofmann, American actress (born 1958)
- Olivia Hofmann, Austrian sports shooter
- Mark Hofmann, American counterfeiter, forger and convicted murderer
- Maximilian Hofmann, Austrian association football player
- Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann, Baltic German geologist (1801-1871)
- Werner Hofmann, art historian (1928–2013)
- Elise Hofmann, Austrian paleobotanist (1889-1955)
- Melchior Hoffman, Anabaptist prophet (1490-1543)

## Similar surnames

Hoffman, Huffman, Hoffmann, Hofman.

## 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.