Hofman families are Croats and they are mostly from Varazdin area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Varazdin.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Hofman live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 250 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 19 cities and 20 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Osijek (<10), Daruvar (<10), Gornji Kneginec in Varazdin area (<10), and in Karlovac (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over seventy times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.