Where the Hoffman name comes from

Hoffman is a surname of German origin, and in medieval times it meant "steward", a person who managed the property of another. The English form is an anglicised spelling of the German Hoffmann. It began as an occupational name for the owner or manager of a piece of land. Across English, Dutch and other European languages, the name also appears as Hoffmann, Hofmann, Hofman, Huffman and Hofmans. At the 2010 United States Census, Hoffman ranked as the 224th most common surname in the country, carried by 131,401 people.