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The OBERG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,457 5804 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 461 10325 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +4996 +4521 +0.001 +11
Other Countries
Australia 132 11106 0.001 8
United Kingdom 60 25601 0 1
Top States for OBERG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 765 588 0.016 156
California 512 5524 0.002 15
Washington 361 2038 0.006 61
Illinois 350 3710 0.003 28
Florida 231 8257 0.001 14
Top States for OBERG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 765 588 0.016 156
Nebraska 181 1044 0.011 106
North Dakota 64 1455 0.010 100
Alaska 59 1350 0.009 94
South Dakota 57 2027 0.008 76

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OBERG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OBERG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OBERG in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OBERG by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OBERG

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OBERG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of OBERG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 108 1.98
White (Hispanic) 80 1.47
Mixed Race 41 0.75
Asian/Pacific 34 0.62
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.42
White (Caucasian) 5,171 94.76

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OBERG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of OBERG in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of OBERG.

Similar names to OBERG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OBERG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for OBERG

The following words are slight variants of OBERG that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.