Oberlé
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Oberlé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Oberle.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 32K
- FRFrance≈1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oberle in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from German Oberle.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oberlé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Oberle | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Oberle | 98 |
| US United States | — | 2,371 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Oberle | 264 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 206 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 261 | 1 in 32K | 261 | Oberle | 24 |
| BZ Belize | #461 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Oberle | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dominique Oberléb. 1941FRsocial psychologist (1941-)
- Gérard Oberléb. 1945FRFrench bookseller and writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oberlé mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Oberle. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Oberlé have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Oberlé in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oberle.
- How common is the name Oberlé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,371 people named Oberlé in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
- How common is Oberlé compared with other names?
- In Belize, Oberlé is the 461st most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oberlé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oberl%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oberlé” — the 461st most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.