2006-08-30 09:34:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Hey Thomas D,
See the sites below. German. There are lots of Huffman folks that are posting on the internet genealogy sites. I found family bible pages posted, pictures and lots of inquiries. The family Crest site says German - take that with a grain of salt - they are just selling pictures.
Don't forget you are many other surnames too! Mother's maiden, Grandmother's maiden, Mothers Father and Mother (neither were your surname), etc. Lots to discover. Keep looking.
2006-08-30 09:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Huffman Name Origin
2016-11-01 01:35:40 · answer #2 · answered by blossomgame 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huffman is a variant of Hoffmann which denoted a farm manager in German. Immigrants with the Huffman spelling came primarily from Germany. The Elsass (Alsace) and French immigrants suggest that the origin for that spelling may have been along the French border. Also a large number of immigrants from Ireland. Whether that is an independent name origin or just a waypoint for some of the immigrants is hard to say.
huffman
Altered spelling of Hoffmann.
Hoffmann
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a steward on a farm or estate, from German hof(f) ‘manorfarm’, ‘courtyard’ + Mann ‘man’. Originally, this was a status name for a farmer who owned his own land as opposed to holding it by rent or feudal obligation, but the name soon came to denote the manager or steward of a manor farm, in which sense it is extremely frequent throughout central and eastern Europe; also among Jews, since many Jews held managerial positions on non-Jewish estates. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, not only in German-speaking lands.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Place of
Origin huffman Immigrants
Germany 18
Ireland 10
Bavaria 4
Elsass 3
France 2
Preussen 2
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.
2006-08-30 13:47:55 · answer #3 · answered by Raymond C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds Germanic.
2006-08-30 09:40:29 · answer #4 · answered by Earthling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a variation on Hoffman(n) to me.
German. Possibly Jewish.
2006-08-30 13:41:10 · answer #5 · answered by lily2enme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably South German.
2006-08-30 17:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by majorcavalry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know people with the name Hoffman - they are Jewish. I also know people with the name Huff - they are of German decsent. Many (not all) surnames that end in MAN are Jewish.
2006-09-01 16:25:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like German to me.
2006-08-30 09:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by soar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but there should be sites on the internet that could tell you
2006-08-30 09:43:36 · answer #9 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably German.
2006-08-30 09:39:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋