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The Hof surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 848 people carried this name — #28,215 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 344,800 people counted. That is down 1% from 854 in 2000.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

300 people named Hof live in Switzerland.

They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 57
Basel-Landschaft 57
Aargau 36
Basel-Stadt 35
Solothurn 29
Bern 20
Thurgau 20
St. Gallen 12

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 253 people named Hof.

13 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 13
Bas-Rhin 83
Nord 64
Vosges 17
Paris 17
Côte-d’Or 9
Haut-Rhin 8
Haute-Garonne 5
Meurthe-et-Moselle 4

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 36 people named Hof live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Antwerp 21
Hainaut 15

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In the Nordic population registers

43 people named Hof is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 43

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Who carried it

People named Hof,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Karel Vít Hof
    Karel Vít Hof 1826–1887 · writer
  • Samuel Hof
    Samuel Hof 1870–1937 · military personnel
  • Simon Hof 1634–1708 · philologist
  • Johan Hof 1645–1709 · priest
  • Sven Hof 1703–1786 · linguist
  • Johann Rudolf Im-Hof 1732–1789 · printer

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Hof.

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