Tobias

Where Tobias comes from

Derived from Ancient Greek Τωβίας (Tōbías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “my good is YHWH”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tobias
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1721
    Tobias Smollett born
    18th-century poet and author from Scotland
  2. 1838
    Tobias Asser born
    Dutch lawyer and legal scholar
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 2016
    Peak, #246
    1,523 babies named Tobias — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Tobias Asser · Dutch lawyer and legal scholar, 1838–1913
  • Tobias Smollett · 18th-century poet and author from Scotland, 1721–1771
  • Tobias Linderoth · Swedish association football player, born 1979
  • Tobias Mayer · German astronomer, 1723–1762
  • Tobias Wolff · fiction writer, memoirist, born 1945

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.