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Ober

in Michigan

There are 52 people with the last name "Ober" in Michigan.

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Ranking in Michigan

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Ober 20,264
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  1. is 20,260th most common Neer
  2. is 20,261st most common Netter
  3. is 20,262nd most common Nolde
  4. is 20,263rd most common Novelli
  5. is 20,264th most common Ober
  6. is 20,265th most common Okelly
  7. is 20,266th most common Olejnik
  8. is 20,267th most common Orlandi
  9. is 20,268th most common Ottenwess

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ober

Jessica, Patrick, Amy, Dorothy, Fergei, Linda, Wayne, Bruce, Carol

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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