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Ober

in Mississippi

There are 8 people with the last name "Ober" in Mississippi.

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Ranking in Mississippi

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Ober 15,681
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  1. is 15,677th most common Nunely
  2. is 15,678th most common Nuttall
  3. is 15,679th most common Oak
  4. is 15,680th most common Oalmann
  5. is 15,681st most common Ober
  6. is 15,682nd most common Odeneal
  7. is 15,683rd most common Oestriecher
  8. is 15,684th most common Ofarrell
  9. is 15,685th most common Oldfather

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ober

Sallie, Dicky, Earl, Jeanine, Judith, Martha, Thomas

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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