Kober Family History
- Kober Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a derivative of the personal name Jakob or Yakov (see Jacob). German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Kober ‘basket’, Middle High German kober, hence a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker or perhaps a nickname for someone who carried a basket on his back. German (Köber): habitational name for someone from a place called Köben. Germanized form of Czech Kovár (see Kovar) ‘blacksmith’ or a cognate in another western Slavic language. Czech: nickname for a fat man, from kobero ‘pot belly’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 130,250 Historical Documents with Kober on Ancestry
- 81,191 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,596 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,385 Military Records
- 3,525 Immigration Records
- 29,553 Member Trees
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Number of Kober families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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