In Croatia, Hoffer families are generally Croats (from Samobor ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Karlovac.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Hoffer live in Croatia today, in 6 households. There were 0 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number multiplied. They are located in only four naselja i to in Karlovac (<10), Samobor (<5), Nova Gradiska (<5), and in Rude (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.