Tobias Forename
4,077th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 257,674 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Namibia
Tobias Forename Definition:
Hebrew, ‘goodness of the Lord.’ The apocryphal Book of Tobit is, when one examines it, no more—but also, no less—than an historical romance dealing with the Jewish captivity; the atmosphere of the marvellous investing Tobit and his son Tobias contributed to the accretion of awed respect for the name Tobias; scenes from this Book appear frequently in medieval art.
Read More About This ForenameTobias Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 97,011 | 1:997 | 224 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 12,903 | 1:1,195 | 214 |
| Sweden | 100% | 12,491 | 1:789 | 140 |
| Kenya | 100% | 12,474 | 1:3,712 | 626 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 8,744 | 1:20,307 | 2,067 |
| United States | 100% | 8,686 | 1:41,738 | 2,496 |
| Zambia | - | 8,092 | 1:1,959 | 368 |
| Czechia | 99% | 7,960 | 1:1,339 | 189 |
| Brazil | 100% | 5,949 | 1:36,012 | 2,824 |
| Colombia | 100% | 5,822 | 1:8,207 | 796 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 5,653 | 1:1,453 | 308 |
| Mexico | 97% | 5,581 | 1:22,244 | 1,294 |
| South Africa | 99% | 5,271 | 1:10,346 | 1,753 |
| Namibia | - | 4,854 | 1:495 | 86 |
| Malawi | 100% | 4,527 | 1:3,780 | 606 |
| Denmark | - | 4,424 | 1:1,277 | 247 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 4,008 | 1:64,362 | 7,795 |
| Mozambique | - | 3,840 | 1:7,095 | 1,242 |
| England | 100% | 3,622 | 1:15,351 | 1,060 |
| Austria | 100% | 2,714 | 1:3,137 | 354 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 2,568 | 1:6,582 | 935 |
| Uganda | 97% | 2,373 | 1:17,260 | 1,472 |
| Thailand | 100% | 2,350 | 1:29,815 | 3,720 |
| Papua New Guinea | 97% | 2,312 | 1:3,526 | 388 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 2,310 | 1:22,852 | 2,239 |
| Philippines | 99% | 2,145 | 1:49,422 | 3,636 |
| Peru | 99% | 1,799 | 1:17,672 | 1,494 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 1,677 | 1:12,886 | 1,372 |
| Angola | 100% | 1,215 | 1:22,195 | 1,764 |
| Norway | 100% | 962 | 1:5,335 | 629 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 922 | 1:32,757 | 2,275 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 917 | 1:5,200 | 656 |
| Ghana | 100% | 843 | 1:32,012 | 2,007 |
| Poland | 100% | 801 | 1:47,475 | 1,298 |
| Australia | - | 792 | 1:17,244 | 1,296 |
| Canada | 100% | 665 | 1:49,825 | 3,276 |
| India | 100% | 574 | 1:2,116,512 | 108,366 |
| Spain | 100% | 552 | 1:84,293 | 2,650 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 525 | 1:58,691 | 6,867 |
| Finland | 100% | 519 | 1:10,565 | 822 |
| Romania | 100% | 480 | 1:41,775 | 2,506 |
| Portugal | - | 452 | 1:23,033 | 1,042 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 418 | 1:176,621 | 8,074 |
| Togo | - | 412 | 1:17,571 | 2,429 |
| Belgium | 100% | 357 | 1:32,185 | 1,967 |
| Honduras | 100% | 335 | 1:26,321 | 1,656 |
| El Salvador | - | 268 | 1:23,663 | 1,146 |
| France | 100% | 206 | 1:322,672 | 4,275 |
| Argentina | 99% | 200 | 1:213,866 | 2,538 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 185 | 1:56,385 | 3,594 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 162 | 1:37,150 | 2,079 |
| Ecuador | - | 159 | 1:111,490 | 2,577 |
| Japan | - | 143 | 1:895,007 | 14,344 |
| Scotland | 100% | 138 | 1:38,771 | 1,381 |
| Italy | 98% | 133 | 1:459,113 | 5,032 |
| Wales | 97% | 127 | 1:24,365 | 1,227 |
| Benin | 100% | 125 | 1:84,607 | 5,557 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 116 | 1:262,499 | 13,964 |
| Panama | 100% | 113 | 1:34,571 | 2,718 |
| New Zealand | - | 108 | 1:42,000 | 2,473 |
| Israel | 98% | 106 | 1:79,273 | 3,884 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 94 | 1:26,157 | 1,476 |
| Greenland | - | 92 | 1:613 | 137 |
| China | - | 91 | 1:15,011,602 | 60,018 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 77 | 1:209,200 | 3,114 |
| Liberia | 100% | 70 | 1:63,029 | 3,121 |
| Cuba | - | 68 | 1:169,214 | 2,650 |
| Ireland | 100% | 61 | 1:76,123 | 2,112 |
| Singapore | 100% | 60 | 1:104,784 | 7,479 |
| Russia | 100% | 54 | 1:2,670,995 | 16,227 |
| Botswana | - | 53 | 1:41,216 | 4,268 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 50 | 1:11,281 | 880 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 48 | 1:149,000 | 10,084 |
| Kuwait | - | 47 | 1:80,538 | 6,521 |
| Malta | - | 45 | 1:9,541 | 977 |
| Hong Kong | - | 42 | 1:184,589 | 3,204 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 42 | 1:172,305 | 3,075 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 100% | 36 | 1:31,602 | 257 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 36 | 1:2,710,004 | 9,023 |
| Chile | 100% | 30 | 1:586,907 | 6,668 |
| Estonia | 100% | 26 | 1:50,592 | 2,900 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 25 | 1:212,403 | 1,378 |
| Sudan | - | 25 | 1:1,512,279 | 3,324 |
| Hungary | 100% | 24 | 1:407,990 | 1,624 |
| Greece | 100% | 18 | 1:607,475 | 7,461 |
| Albania | 100% | 15 | 1:203,105 | 10,584 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 15 | 1:228,509 | 3,962 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 13 | 1:104,725 | 7,155 |
| Croatia | 100% | 10 | 1:421,708 | 5,130 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 10 | 1:3,786 | 437 |
| Qatar | 100% | 10 | 1:236,960 | 22,379 |
| Djibouti | - | 9 | 1:101,740 | 979 |
| Egypt | - | 9 | 1:10,211,216 | 21,716 |
| Grenada | 100% | 9 | 1:12,014 | 1,427 |
| Guyana | - | 8 | 1:95,408 | 7,334 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 8 | 1:2,971,210 | 60,968 |
| Vietnam | - | 8 | 1:11,577,889 | 4,258 |
| Guam | - | 7 | 1:22,949 | 2,164 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 7 | 1:82,994 | 4,768 |
| Ukraine | - | 7 | 1:6,499,987 | 10,516 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 6 | 1:88,192 | 3,143 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 6 | 1:8,188 | 985 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 6 | 1:340,000 | 19,758 |
| Belarus | 100% | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Bolivia | - | 5 | 1:2,120,281 | 4,345 |
| Jersey | - | 5 | 1:19,996 | 1,220 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 5 | 1:35,563 | 3,018 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 5 | 1:38,399 | 2,673 |
| South Korea | - | 5 | 1:1,108,884 | 18,705 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Lithuania | - | 4 | 1:737,970 | 2,861 |
| Somalia | - | 4 | 1:3,381,467 | 5,208 |
| Turkey | 100% | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Micronesia | - | 3 | 1:35,500 | 1,253 |
| Monaco | 100% | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Oman | - | 3 | 1:1,369,556 | 7,879 |
| Belize | 100% | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Iceland | 100% | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Serbia | - | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kosovo | - | 1 | 1:1,861,440 | 22,170 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Pakistan | - | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | - | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
The alternate forms: Tobías (53), Tobiaš (19), Tobiás (1), Tóbiás (35) & Tóbías (1) are calculated separately.
Tobias (94,724) may also be a surname.
Tobias Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Hebrew, ‘goodness of the Lord.’ The apocryphal Book of Tobit is, when one examines it, no more—but also, no less—than an historical romance dealing with the Jewish captivity; the atmosphere of the marvellous investing Tobit and his son Tobias contributed to the accretion of awed respect for the name Tobias; scenes from this Book appear frequently in medieval art. (Yonge.)
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A name derived from Τωβιας, the Greek form of the Scripture name טוֹבִיָּה, Tobijah, from tobh-Yah, which has been variously rendered ‘God’s goodness’ and ‘distinguished of the Lord’ (say ‘of Jehovah’).
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
A Greek name, meaning: Form of Tobiah.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Tobias Forename Popularity
Tobias Demographics
Average Male Tobias Height
177.23 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 1,153 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Phonetically Similar Names
Tobias Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tobias in the Russian language | ||
| Тобиас | tobias | - |
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