Last name origin & meaning: German: topographic name for someone who lived by or owned a water
meadow at the upper end of a village, or held land there, from
oben ‘up’, ‘above’ + Au ‘water meadow’ (Middle High
German oben ‘up’, ‘above’ + ouwe ‘water meadow’) + the
suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.
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