Ober Family History
Ober Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ober
Name Distribution of Ober Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ober families
 79 - 155  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ober families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Ober last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ober census records
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Ober Family Origin
Ober Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Ober
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Ober Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Ober census records
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Ober Civil War Service Records
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