Höffer Surname
Approximately 474 people bear this surname
Höffer Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 454 | 1:177,325 | 20,795 |
| Austria | 11 | 1:774,130 | 64,097 |
| Slovakia | 6 | 1:889,408 | 78,715 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
The alternate forms: Hoffer (14,634) are calculated separately.
Höffer Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Höffer Come From? nationality or country of origin
Höffer is found in Germany more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Hoffer. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Höffer? popularity and diffusion
It is the 641,055th most commonly held surname world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 15,374,569 people. The last name Höffer occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Höffer reside; 98 percent reside in Western Europe and 98 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This last name is most widely held in Germany, where it is borne by 454 people, or 1 in 177,325. In Germany it is primarily found in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 84 percent are found, Schleswig-Holstein, where 4 percent are found and Baden-Württemberg, where 3 percent are found. Excluding Germany Höffer exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Austria, where 2 percent are found and Slovakia, where 1 percent are found.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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