Oberlander Surname
Approximately 3,380 people bear this surname
Oberlander Surname Definition:
(Swiss) One who came from Oberland (high land), the name of several districts in Switzerland; dweller in the high lands or mountains.
Read More About This SurnameOberlander Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,693 | 1:134,593 | 14,102 |
| Germany | 201 | 1:400,525 | 36,990 |
| Israel | 169 | 1:50,637 | 6,653 |
| Canada | 62 | 1:594,284 | 49,093 |
| Argentina | 44 | 1:971,441 | 61,182 |
| France | 44 | 1:1,509,607 | 143,950 |
| Australia | 29 | 1:930,886 | 55,860 |
| England | 21 | 1:2,653,241 | 94,788 |
| Brazil | 19 | 1:11,267,070 | 228,483 |
| Scotland | 14 | 1:382,416 | 16,471 |
| Austria | 12 | 1:709,620 | 61,025 |
| Uruguay | 11 | 1:311,978 | 20,848 |
| Hungary | 10 | 1:981,628 | 46,877 |
| Spain | 9 | 1:5,194,671 | 82,436 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Belgium | 6 | 1:1,916,107 | 103,447 |
| Ukraine | 4 | 1:11,380,674 | 331,818 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 7 | 1:3,482,196 | 89,582 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 171 | 1:293,677 | 23,423 |
The alternate forms: Oberländer (4,370) are calculated separately.
Oberlander (23) may also be a first name.
Oberlander Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Swiss) One who came from Oberland (high land), the name of several districts in Switzerland; dweller in the high lands or mountains.
(from a place name) Austrian Jews who bear the name Oberlander came from South or West Germany. Hungarian Jews who bear this name are ones whose family originated in the Carpathian area.
User-submitted Reference
A German and an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Jews who bear this surname are descendants of Oberlander Jews, which are the Jews who inhabited the northwestern regions of the historical Kingdom of Hungary, which are contemporary western Slovakia and Burgenland.
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Average Oberlander Salary in
United States
$46,062 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Oberlander Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Oberlander Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Oberlander (Russian: Оберландер) has its highest incidence in The United States. It may also appear as: Oberländer. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Oberlander? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 133,392nd most widespread surname globally It is held by around 1 in 2,156,079 people. The surname Oberlander is primarily found in The Americas, where 84 percent of Oberlander are found; 82 percent are found in North America and 81 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,239,265th most prevalent first name on earth, borne by 23 people.
The last name Oberlander is most numerous in The United States, where it is held by 2,693 people, or 1 in 134,593. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: New York, where 23 percent live, California, where 10 percent live and Pennsylvania, where 6 percent live. Aside from The United States it occurs in 33 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 6 percent live and Israel, where 5 percent live.
Oberlander Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Oberlander has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Oberlander surname expanded 1,575 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 300 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Oberlander Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Oberlander surname are 5.64% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 52.41% registered with the political party.
The amount Oberlander earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 30.7% less than the national average, earning R 164,676 per year; in United States they earn 6.75% more than the national average, earning $46,062 USD per year and in Canada they earn 43.08% more than the national average, earning $71,084 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oberländer | 97 | 4,370 | / |
| Oberlaender | 95 | 363 | / |
| Oberlande | 95 | 2 | / |
| Overlander | 90 | 336 | / |
| Oberlender | 90 | 283 | / |
| Oberlönder | 90 | 1 | / |
| Eberlander | 90 | 0 | / |
| Haberlander | 86 | 113 | / |
| Overlaender | 86 | 9 | / |
| Overlanderr | 86 | 1 | / |
| Oberlandi | 84 | 1 | / |
| Oberlende | 84 | 1 | / |
| Overländer | 80 | 71 | / |
| Haberlande | 80 | 8 | / |
| Overlender | 80 | 4 | / |
| Oberländerová | 78 | 37 | / |
| Hawerlander | 76 | 52 | / |
| Haberländer | 76 | 33 | / |
Oberlander Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oberlander in the Russian language | ||
| Оберландер | oberlander | - |
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Oberlander Reference & Research
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Oberlander
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