Oberlander Surname

133,392nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3,380 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Israel

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.

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Oberlander Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2,6931:134,59314,102
Germany2011:400,52536,990
Israel1691:50,6376,653
Canada621:594,28449,093
Argentina441:971,44161,182
France441:1,509,607143,950
Australia291:930,88655,860
England211:2,653,24194,788
Brazil191:11,267,070228,483
Scotland141:382,41616,471
Austria121:709,62061,025
Uruguay111:311,97820,848
Hungary101:981,62846,877
Spain91:5,194,67182,436
South Africa61:9,029,617189,736
Belgium61:1,916,107103,447
Ukraine41:11,380,674331,818
Dominican Republic41:2,608,23320,941
Netherlands21:8,443,588136,641
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Hong Kong21:3,667,74211,574
China21:683,660,78330,601
Denmark21:2,822,35876,882
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1711:293,67723,423

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

(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.

— Rabbi Benzion Kaganoff

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.

- noam

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

Oberlander Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Oberlander in the Russian language
Оберландерoberlander-

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Oberlander Reference & Research

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