Släkthistoria för Offen
Offen Vad efternamn betyder
German: variant of Off. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German oven German Ofen ‘oven’ a metonymic occupational name for a baker or as a German name for someone who had charge of the communal village oven and was empowered to exact payment in kind for its use. It may also be a topographic name for someone who lived near a kiln or in an area or field named with this word. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Buda in Hungary now part of Budapest known in Middle High German as Ofen. English (Kent and Sussex): probably a habitational name from Offham Kent which originally denoted ‘Offa's homestead’ (Old English personal name Offa + Old English hām) or from Offham in South Stoke Sussex which either had the same sense or denoted ‘Offa's land in a river bend’ (Old English hamm).
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
