Oberto

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Oberto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Germánico: od 'propiedad, riqueza' + berht 'brillo'; 'resplandor de la riqueza'.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 94K
  • UYUruguay1 in 56K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,000 people, est.

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

Germánico: od 'propiedad, riqueza' + berht 'brillo'; 'resplandor de la riqueza'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Where in the world(measured from records)

Oberto 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.

Where Oberto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#806≈3,000 est.≈1 in 9.6K497Oberto38
IT Italy—≈590 est.≈1 in 106KlistedOberto17
AR Argentina—4831 in 94K483Oberto37
US United States—3811 in 873K408Oberto72
CO Colombia—≈240 est.≈1 in 209K—Oberto25
UY Uruguay—601 in 56K60Oberto8
PA Panama—≈46 est.≈1 in 84K1Oberto14

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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Oberto is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written O'Berto

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Oberto is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Germanico, da aud- ‘patrimonio’ + berht ‘illustre, brillante’.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, dal germanico Adalbert / Oberto, 'illustre, brillante'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, È in errore il Fumagalli, che per questo nome ri- manda ad Uberto (vedi a suo luogo). L'etimologia è da aud. od = patrimonio, e behrt = illustre. In Paolo Diacono Autpedus; dutperl (documenti Lucca, 722,747) Audipert (Lucca, 754). Cogn. piemonteai Alidiberti, Odiberti, Oberti, Operti.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Obertus

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Rico y brillante

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Stefano Oberto, b. 1909Luigi Oberto, b. 1912Luis Enrique Oberto, b. 1928Giacomo Oberto, b. 1956Fabricio Oberto, b. 1975Orlando Oberto, b. 1980Laura Oberto, b. 1993

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)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Oberto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—483—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020408#54,521
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010381#54,178
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000352#54,766
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—60—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Oberto mean?
Recorded meaning: Germánico: od 'propiedad, riqueza' + berht 'brillo'; 'resplandor de la riqueza'.
In which country does Oberto have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Oberto in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oberto.
How common is the name Oberto?
In Argentina, the national register counted 483 people named Oberto, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
How common is Oberto compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Oberto is the 806th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oberto” — the 806th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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