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Ober

in North Dakota

There is 1 person with the last name "Ober" in North Dakota.

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Ranking in North Dakota

NameRank
Ober 35,796
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  1. is 35,792nd most common Oakley
  2. is 35,793rd most common Oaks
  3. is 35,794th most common Obarski
  4. is 35,795th most common Obbink
  5. is 35,796th most common Ober
  6. is 35,797th most common Oberhousen
  7. is 35,798th most common Oberland
  8. is 35,799th most common Oberstar
  9. is 35,800th most common Obgregon

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ober

Andreas

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Meaning & History

1. English: unexplained.

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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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