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Ober

in South Dakota

There are 5 people with the last name "Ober" in South Dakota.

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Ranking in South Dakota

NameRank
Ober 18,743
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  1. is 18,739th most common Nyenhuis
  2. is 18,740th most common Nygren
  3. is 18,741st most common Nylund
  4. is 18,742nd most common Obanion
  5. is 18,743rd most common Ober
  6. is 18,744th most common Obert
  7. is 18,745th most common Obeslo
  8. is 18,746th most common Obrian
  9. is 18,747th most common Obrion

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Ober

Joey, Lorraine, Mark, Phyllis, Scott

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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