Hoffmeister

English

Alternative forms

• Hoffmaster, Huffmaster

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hoffmeister.

Proper noun

Hoffmeister (plural Hoffmeisters)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hoffmeister is the 19027^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1431 individuals. Hoffmeister is most common among White (95.74%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hoffmeister”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 189.

German

Distribution of Hoffmeisters in Germany

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɔfˌmaɪ̯stɐ]
• Hyphenation: Hoff‧meis‧ter

Proper noun

Hoffmeister m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hoffmeisters or (with an article) Hoffmeister, feminine genitive Hoffmeister, plural Hoffmeisters or Hoffmeister)

1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Hoffmeister [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Hoffmeister	(eine)	(die)	Hoffmeister	(die)	Hoffmeisters, Hoffmeister
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Hoffmeisters, Hoffmeister1	(einer)	(der)	Hoffmeister	(der)	Hoffmeisters, Hoffmeister
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Hoffmeister	(einer)	(der)	Hoffmeister	(den)	Hoffmeisters, Hoffmeister
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Hoffmeister	(eine)	(die)	Hoffmeister	(die)	Hoffmeisters, Hoffmeister

¹With an article.

Related terms

• Hoffrichter, Hoffmann, Hofmeister, Hofer, Ganghofer
• Baumeister, Hachmeister, Holzmeister, Wachtmeister, Waldmeister, Quartiermeister