Word.ws English Dictionary

Hoffmann

Hoffmann is the alternative spelling of Hoffman.

Meaning of Hoffman

Proper noun

Hoffman (countable and uncountable, plural Hoffmans)

  1. A surname from German of German and Ashkenazi Jewish origin.
    • Graphs with diameter d and girth 2d#43;1 are known as Moore graphs. They were introduced by Hoffman and Singleton in a paper that can be viewed as one of the prime sources of algebraic graph theory.2013, Chris Godsil, Gordon F. Royle, Algebraic Graph Theory, Springer, page 77
  2. A village in Clinton County, Illinois.
  3. A minor city in Grant County, Minnesota.
  4. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri.
  5. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
  6. A town in Richmond County, North Carolina.

See all 8 meanings of Hoffman

Forms of Hoffmann

pluralHoffmanns

Origin of Hoffmann

Borrowed from German Hoffmann.

Words formed from Hoffmann

Questions about Hoffmann

What is Hoffmann the alternative spelling of?
Hoffmann is the alternative spelling of Hoffman.

Words near Hoffmann in the dictionary

  1. Hofflers
  2. Hoffman
  3. Hoffman Estates
  4. Hoffman simulator
  5. Hoffman simulators
  6. Hoffmann
  7. Hoffmannian
  8. Hoffmaster
  9. Hoffmasters
  10. Hoffmeister
  11. Hoffmeisters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hoffmann (page history and authors); Hoffman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hoffmann.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hoffmann. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.