The ober Surname
ober Name Meaning and 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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