Tobias: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced tuh-BY-uhs · 3 syllables

Tobias means “my good is YHWH”, from Hebrew and Greek.

Derived from Ancient Greek (Tobias), from Hebrew (toviya, literally “my good is YHWH”).

How popular is Tobias?

Tobias was the #283 name in the US in 2025, given to 1,201 babies. It’s rising: up 79% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Tobias in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Tobias are older than 31; most are between 19 and 60. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Tobias have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Tobias means “my good is YHWH”. It comes from Hebrew and Greek.

Tobias is pronounced tuh-BY-uhs.

Tobias was the #283 name in the US in 2025, given to 1,201 babies. It’s rising: up 79% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Tobias are older than 31. Most are between 19 and 60.