Frequency: (144)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: topographic name for an upland dweller, from Middle High German ob(e) ‘up’, ‘above’ + lant ‘land’, ‘terrain’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. Compare Oberlander.
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