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Ober

in Louisiana

There are 39 people with the last name "Ober" in Louisiana.

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Ranking in Louisiana

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Ober 9,556
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  1. is 9,552nd most common Navy
  2. is 9,553rd most common Nestor
  3. is 9,554th most common Niehaus
  4. is 9,555th most common Nugier
  5. is 9,556th most common Ober
  6. is 9,557th most common Olivares
  7. is 9,558th most common Overman
  8. is 9,559th most common Palestina
  9. is 9,560th most common Pavur

Similar Names and Nicknames

Oberg, Oberle, Obert, Oberlander, Oberholtzer, Oberry, Obermeyer, Oberlin, Oberman, Oberst

Most Common First Names for Ober

Elaina, Richard, Doug, George, Georgie, Alice, Betty, Bryan, Charlotte, Christina

Meaning & History

English: unexplained.

South German: topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a village on a hill, from Middle High German ober, obar ‘above’. In other cases, it may have denoted someone who lived on an upper floor of a building with two or more floors.

North German: topographic for someone who lived on the bank of a river or stream name, standardized from Middle Low German over ‘river bank’.

Possibly a shortened form of any of various German compound names formed with Ober- (see entries below).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Ober ‘senior’, ‘chief’. In some cases it can denote a rabbi; in others it is ornamental.

FOREBEARS A 17th-century American bearer of this name, Richard Ober (1641–1715/16), emigrated from Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, to the Salem colony and settled in Mackerel Cove, MA, later Beverly. His descendant Frederick Albion Ober, who was born in Beverly, MA, in 1849, was an ornithologist who discovered 22 new species of birds in the Lesser Antilles, the flycatcher Myiarchus oberi, and oriole Icterus oberi.

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