When May Josiphine Hoff was born on 7 November 1878, in Keyport, Hazlet Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, her father, Walter Tomkins Hoff, was 26 and her mother, Mrs. Mary M. Hoff, was 30. She died on 18 January 1892, in Raritan Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Keyport, Hazlet Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.
North German, Dutch, and Danish: topographic name or status name for the owner of a farm, or an occupational name for someone who worked on the main farm in a community, from Middle High and Low German hof ‘farmstead, manor farm’, or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word. Compare Hof , Hofer , and Hoffmann , and also Huff .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Hov, from Old Norse hof ‘sacrificial temple’. Compare Huff .
English: variant of Hough .
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