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Ober

in New Jersey

There are 81 people with the last name "Ober" in New Jersey.

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Ober 9,972
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  1. is 9,968th most common Munafo
  2. is 9,969th most common Murcia
  3. is 9,970th most common Nace
  4. is 9,971st most common Nass
  5. is 9,972nd most common Ober
  6. is 9,973rd most common Ore
  7. is 9,974th most common Pendergast
  8. is 9,975th most common Piccone
  9. is 9,976th most common Pickel

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ober

John, Ruth, Charles, David, Dawn, Denise, Edward, Garry, Gus, Joann

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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