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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from German ober ‘upper’, ‘above’ (see Ober), with the addition of man ‘man’. This may have referred to someone living in an upper part of a village or to someone living on an upper story of an apartment block.
  • German : status name for an overseer or arbitrator.

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