Kirchoff Surname Guide

Genealogists group Kirchoff with Kirchhoff. Its meaning, shared with Kirchhoff, is “Someone living by a churchyard”.

Kirchoff and Kirchhoff

Kirchoff drops the “h” of Kirchhoff, a simplification that clerks often made. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Kirchhoffs, Kirchhof and Kirchhoffer.

In the records

According to the 2010 US Census, the Kirchoff surname had 2,213 bearers.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Kirchoff, so the heraldry linked to Kirchhoff is a starting point, not an automatic right.

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