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Ober

in Nevada

There are 25 people with the last name "Ober" in Nevada.

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Ober 8,768
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  1. is 8,764th most common Molinari
  2. is 8,765th most common Nesmith
  3. is 8,766th most common Ni
  4. is 8,767th most common Nicastro
  5. is 8,768th most common Ober
  6. is 8,769th most common Ohanian
  7. is 8,770th most common Ohlson
  8. is 8,771st most common Orona
  9. is 8,772nd most common Oyler

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ober

Jennifer, Kevin, Lana, Nancy, Terry, Ann, Barbara, Birch, David, Dvorre

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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