# Tobiah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tobiah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “yahweh is good” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 683 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 683 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 79, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the Hebrew name טוֹבִיָּה (Toviyyah, “Yahweh is good”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | 6,222 |
| 2012 | 23 | 4,373 |
| 2013 | 27 | 3,852 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,247 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,871 |
| 2016 | 39 | 3,053 |
| 2017 | 28 | 3,878 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,696 |
| 2019 | 14 | 6,376 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,206 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,751 |
| 2022 | 17 | 5,611 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,856 |
| 2024 | 15 | 6,156 |
| 2025 | 21 | 4,843 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2,578 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2,664 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.