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    The surname Oberle

    A German surname, carried by 2,371 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex O164

    Oberle: #12,953 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Oberle #12,953, 2,371 people Oberle: #12,953 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Oberle #12,953, 2,371 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Oberle is more common than 92% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Oberle.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,371 people named Oberle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,217 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,246.

    #12,953
    rank among US surnames
    2,371
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #12,642)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,944Steffey2,373130,108
    #12,948Letson2,372130,163
    #12,953Silverberg2,371130,217
    #12,961Rine2,370130,272

    Who is named Oberle

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Oberle identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Oberly

    Surnames that sound like Oberle

    Oberle has the Soundex code O164, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O164.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Oberle come from?
    Borrowed from German Oberle.
    How common is the surname Oberle?
    2,371 people in the United States had the surname Oberle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,217 Americans. It ranked 12,953rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Oberle?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Oberle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Oberle getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,371 in 2010, up 5.6%.
    What are other spellings of Oberle?
    Oberly.