# Tobias (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tobias/  
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 | “my good is yhwh” |
| Pronunciation | /təˈbaɪəs/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,322 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 29,322 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 13,563, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Τωβίας (Tōbías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “my good is YHWH”).

## 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 | 480 | 529 |
| 2012 | 520 | 509 |
| 2013 | 568 | 486 |
| 2014 | 743 | 418 |
| 2015 | 1,123 | 316 |
| 2016 | 1,523 | 246 |
| 2017 | 1,344 | 269 |
| 2018 | 1,295 | 273 |
| 2019 | 1,319 | 272 |
| 2020 | 1,295 | 263 |
| 2021 | 1,243 | 276 |
| 2022 | 1,262 | 275 |
| 2023 | 1,222 | 279 |
| 2024 | 1,220 | 280 |
| 2025 | 1,201 | 283 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 590 | 108 |
| 2012 | 486 | 128 |
| 2013 | 490 | 125 |
| 2014 | 524 | 120 |
| 2015 | 604 | 106 |
| 2016 | 647 | 101 |
| 2017 | 618 | 104 |
| 2018 | 647 | 98 |
| 2019 | 624 | 101 |
| 2020 | 574 | 104 |
| 2021 | 596 | 98 |
| 2022 | 568 | 98 |
| 2023 | 506 | 105 |
| 2024 | 496 | 108 |
| 2025 | 461 | 116 |

## In other languages

- Czech: Tobiáš
- Danish: Tobias
- Finnish: Topias
- French: Tobie
- German: Tobias
- Greek: Τωβίας
- Hebrew: טוּבִיָּה
- Hungarian: Tóbiás
- Irish: Tóibias
- Italian: Tobia
- Latin: Tobīās
- Norwegian: Tobias
- Polish: Tobiasz
- Portuguese: Tobias
- Russian: То́биас, Тоба́йес, Тоба́йас
- Spanish: Tobías
- Swedish: Tobias

## People named Tobias

- Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and legal scholar (1838-1913)
- Tobias Wolff, fiction writer, memoirist (b. 1945)
- Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
- Tobias Menzies, English actor (born 1974)
- Tobias Harris, American basketball player (born 1992)
- Tobias Lindholm, Danish screenwriter and film director
- Tobias Arlt, German luger
- Tobias Wendl, German luger
- Tobias Sammet, German musician
- Tobias Mikkelsen, Danish footballer
- Tobias Moretti, Austrian actor
- Tobias Weis, German footballer

## 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.