Ober : 1: English (Surrey): 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’.3: North German: topographic for someone who lived on the bank of a river or stream; standardized form from Middle Low German over ‘river bank’.4: Possibly also a shortened form of any of various German compound names formed with Ober- (see above).5: Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Ober ‘senior chief’. In some cases it can denote a rabbi; in others it is artificial.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
ncG1vNJzZmidnmO0prrEmqWerF6kv6h70q6pp5mdmsBwm6F%2BiQ%3D%3D