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Tobia

“my good is YHWH”

masculineLatin script

/\to.bja\/ · French

Origin: Hebrew
4 language contexts: French Spanish Italian +1 more
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Tobia

Tobia is a masculine given name documented in French, Spanish, Italian and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה via Ancient Greek, with the stated meaning “my good is YHWH”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Tóbia (Hungarian)

Hebrew origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “my good is YHWH”

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

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Tobia is used

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6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1991: 5 boys (rank 8236).

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4 of 11 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Tobia

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 4; births; Rank #1,287
Peak year: 2008; 21 births

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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Tobia in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	1	1,148	observed
2001	8	541	observed
2002	8	565	observed
2003	8	576	observed
2004	12	473	observed
2005	8	606	observed
2006	4	892	observed
2007	6	756	observed
2008	21	329	observed
2009	10	620	observed
2010	9	684	observed
2011	6	865	observed
2012	12	562	observed
2013	12	576	observed
2014	8	765	observed
2015	6	936	observed
2016	5	1,041	observed
2017	12	606	observed
2018	13	572	observed
2019	6	980	observed
2020	4	1,221	observed
2021	10	713	observed
2022	10	685	observed
2023	4	1,226	observed
2024	6	957	observed
2025	4	1,287	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Tobia” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

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04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Tobia— “goodness of the Lord”
_Tobia_, _m._ _It._ _Ger._ Heb. goodness of the Lord, 49
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q18327528CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Tobia

Separate records with matching spellings: Tóbia (Hungarian)

Hebrew origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “my good is YHWH”

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

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Tobia is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Tobia’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 1991: 5 boys (rank 8236).

Explore United States

4 of 11 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Tobia

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 4; births; Rank #1,287
Peak year: 2008; 21 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Tobia in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	1	1,148	observed
2001	8	541	observed
2002	8	565	observed
2003	8	576	observed
2004	12	473	observed
2005	8	606	observed
2006	4	892	observed
2007	6	756	observed
2008	21	329	observed
2009	10	620	observed
2010	9	684	observed
2011	6	865	observed
2012	12	562	observed
2013	12	576	observed
2014	8	765	observed
2015	6	936	observed
2016	5	1,041	observed
2017	12	606	observed
2018	13	572	observed
2019	6	980	observed
2020	4	1,221	observed
2021	10	713	observed
2022	10	685	observed
2023	4	1,226	observed
2024	6	957	observed
2025	4	1,287	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Tobia— “goodness of the Lord”
_Tobia_, _m._ _It._ _Ger._ Heb. goodness of the Lord, 49
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q18327528CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Italian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: TobiaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Tobia

About Tobia

Hebrew origin

Where Tobia is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Thobias

Tobbe

Tobi

Tobias

Tobiáš

Tóbiás

Tobiasz

Tobie

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Tobia

About Tobia

Hebrew origin

Where Tobia is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Thobias

Tobbe

Tobi

Tobias

Tobiáš

Tóbiás

Tobiasz

Tobie

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Tobia

Hebrew origin

Where Tobia is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Tobia

Hebrew origin

Where Tobia is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page