Hoof is a surname of Dutch or German origin and is a variant of Hoff. It is a topographic surname from North Germany. It is also a Dutch nickname for hoofd meaning head.
Anne Catherine Hoof Green (c. 1720–1775), née Hoof, printer and publisher in colonial Maryland David L. Hoof (born 1945), American novelist Jacob Otto Hoof (1768–1839), Swedish Lutheran pastor and Christian revivalist preacher William Hoof (1788–1855), British civil engineer
See also Van Hoof, another surname Black Hoof (c. 1740–1831), head civil chief of the Shawnee Indians in the Ohio Country
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