North German and Dutch: topographic name from the plural of
hof ‘manor farm’, ‘court’, ‘garden’, or a habitational name
from places named with this word, for example in the Belgian provinces
of Antwerp and Hainault.Norwegian: habitational name from
any of numerous farmsteads named Hove, from the dative singular of Old
Norse hof ‘pagan temple’, ‘place of worship’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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