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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : dialect variant of Hoff ‘farm’.
  • North German : from Middle Low German haf ‘sea’, ‘lagoon’, most likely denoting someone living by one of the lagoons on the Baltic coast, German Haff.

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