The Kirchhoffer Family Name

Behind the Kirchhoffer surname stands Kirchhoff, a German name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. Name scholars give the meaning as “Someone living by a churchyard”. Kirchhoffer is built on the same root as Kirchhoff, with the ending -er. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Kirchhoffs, Kirchoff and Kirchhof.

INSEE counts 286 people born in France with the Kirchhoffer surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1931–1940. There were 16 such births in the 1890s and 22 in the 1990s.

There is no single Kirchhoffer family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Get the complete Kirchhoffer report, with a museum-style coat of arms.