Puthoff Family History
Puthoff Name Meaning
North German:: (Püthoff): habitational name from a farm in Westphalia so named from Middle Low German putte ‘puddle pit cistern well’ (from Latin puteus ‘well’) + hof(f) ‘farmstead manor farm’. alternatively a variant of Potthoff . Both forms of the surname Püthoff and Puthoff are no longer found in Germany.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022