German (Höber): occupational name for someone whose
work involved lifting heavy loads, from an agent derivative of Middle
High German heben ‘to lift’, or habitational name for someone
from Höver near Ülzen.Jewish (Ashkenazic):
metonymic occupational name or ornamental name from Yiddish
hober ‘oats’. Compare Haber.
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