Tobias

Tobias is the romanization into Latin letters of the Koine Greek name Τωβίας, which itself is a Hellenization of the Biblical Hebrew name טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, 'Yah is good'. It is the name of several minor Biblical figures as well as a major character in the Book of Tobit. Tobias is a common male given name in English-speaking, German-speaking, Dutch-speaking, and Scandinavian-language regions.

In English-speaking regions, it is often shortened to Toby or Tobey. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe.

In various languages

Amharic: ጦቢያ (Ṭobiya)
Burmese: တိုဘိယ (Tobiya)
Catalan: Tobies
Simplified Chinese: 托拜厄斯 (Tuōbàièsī)
Traditional Chinese: :託比亞斯 (Tuōbǐyǎsī)
Croatian: Tobijaš
Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias
Danish: Tobias
Dutch: Tobias
English: Tobias
Finnish: Topias, Topi
French: Tobie
German: Tobias
Greek: Τωβίας (Tobías, Tovias)
Hebrew: טוֹבִיה (Tovyah, Tovia, Tuvya)
Hungarian: Tóbiás
Irish: Tóibias
Italian: Tobia
Kazakh: Тобиас (Tobïas)
Kurdish: Tobîas
Latgalian: Tobijas
Lithuanian: Tobijas
Maltese: Tobija
Norwegian: Tobias
Occitan: Tòbiàs
Polish: Tobiasz
Portuguese: Tobias
Romanian: Tobie, Tobit
Russian: Товий (Toviy)
Serbian: Товија (Tovija)
Slovak: Tobiáš
Spanish: Tobías
Swedish: Tobias
Ukrainian: Товія (Toviya)
Yiddish: טבֿיה (Tevye)

People known by the mononym

People called Tobias, Tobiah, or Tobijah include:

Tobias, son of Tobit, a Jewish man in the Book of Tobit who goes on a miraculous journey
- Tobit, the father of Tobias; sometimes translated as "Tobias" himself in older sources such as the Vulgate and Douay–Rheims Bible
Tobiah (Ammonite), an Ammonite official and opponent of Nehemiah in the Book of Nehemiah
Tobiads, a Jewish faction active in Second Temple Period Judaism, notably during the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Maccabean eras; they claimed descent from a patriarch named Tobias
Tobias, a legendary 3rd-century Christian martyr among Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion and companions
Tobias of Jerusalem, a 2nd-century bishop of Jerusalem
Tobias (bishop of Rochester) (died 726), an English bishop
Tobijah, two persons mentioned in the Bible: a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:8); and a Jew traveling from Babylon to Jerusalem with precious metal for Zerubbabel (Zechariah 6:10–14).

People with given name

Tobias (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2024), Brazilian footballer
Tobias Abse (born 1956 or 1957), British historian
Tobias Abstreiter (born 1970), German ice hockey center
Tobias Angerer (born 1977), German cross country skier
Tobias Arlt (born 1987), German luger
Tobias Bamberg (1875–1963), Dutch magician
Tobias Barreto (1839–1889), Brazilian poet and philosopher
Tobias Beer (born 1976), English actor
Tobias Bernstrup (born 1970), Swedish contemporary artist
Tobias Billström (born 1973), Swedish politician
Tobias Bjarneby (born 1974), Swedish video game journalist
Tobias de Boer (1930–2016), Dutch scientist
Tobias Bogner (born 1990), German ski jumper
Tobias Bonhoeffer (born 1960), German-American neurobiologist
Tobias Bridge (fl. 17th century), English soldier and officer
Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979), Grenadian-American science fiction author
Tobias Capwell (born c. 1973), American military historian
Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1975), Swedish footballer defender
Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1995), Swedish footballer defender
Tobías Zúñiga Castro (1854–1918), Costa Rican politician
Tobias Cohn (1652–1729), Polish physician
Tobias Cole (born 1971), Australian opera singer and countertenor
Tobias Cremer (born 1992), German politician
Tobias Joaquim Dai (born 1950), Mozambican politician
Tobias Dantzig (1884–1956), Russian-American mathematician
Tobias Delius (born 1964), British-German musician and saxophonist
Tobias Dier (born 1976), German golfer
Tobias Dorzon (born 1984), American chef
Tobias Druitt, pseudonym of the authors Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling
Tobiah ben Eliezer (fl. 11th century), poet and Talmud commentator
Tobias Ebenberger (born 1990), German politician
Tobias Ellwood (born 1966), British politician and soldier
Tobias Enhus, Swedish composer
Tobias Enström (born 1984), Swedish hockey defenceman
Tobias Exxel (born 1973), German bass player for the band Edguy
Tobias Forge (born 1981), Swedish musician in the band Ghost
Tobias Forsberg (born 1988), Swedish hockey player winger
Tobias Frere-Jones (born 1970), American type designer
Tobias Furneaux (1735–1781), British Royal Navy officer
Tobias Geffen (1870–1970), American rabbi
Tobias Gentleman (fl. 1614), English mariner and writer
Tobias Grahn (born 1980), Swedish footballer midfielder
Tobias Grünenfelder (born 1977), Swiss alpine skier
Tobias Guddal (born 2002), Norwegian footballer
Tobias Harris (born 1992), American NBA basketball player
Tobias Hecht (born 1964), American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator
Tobías Hernández (born 1958), Venezuelan MLB baseball player and catcher
Tobias Hill (1970–2023), British poet and novelist
Tobias Hoesl (born 1961), German television actor
Tobias Holmqvist (born 1988), Swedish footballer and striker
Tobias Hume (c. 1579 – 1645), Scottish composer & soldier
Tobias Hysén (born 1982), Swedish footballer forward
Tobias Jensen (born 2004), Danish basketballer
Tobias Jesso Jr. (born 1985), Canadian musician
Tobias Jones (writer), British author and journalist
Tobias Jonsson (born 1996), Swedish Paralympic athlete
Tobias Justin (born 1996), Indonesian YouTuber
Tobias Jørgensen (born 2000), Danish Paralympic equestrian
Tobias Kamke (born 1986), German tennis player
Tobias Karkulowski (born 2004), Finnish footballer and defender
Tobias Karlsson (songwriter), Swedish record producer
Tobias Kassung (born 1977), German classical guitarist and composer
Tobias Krantz (born 1971), Swedish politician
Tobías Lasser (1911–2006), Venezuelan botanist
Tobias Lear V (1762–1816), American secretary
Tobias Levels (born 1986), German-Dutch footballer
Tobias Lindemann (born 1966), German architect, designer and media entrepreneur
Tobias Linderoth (born 1979), Swedish football midfielder and manager
Tobias Lohner (1619-1697), Austrian Jesuit theologian
Tobias Mabuta Munihango (born 1983), Namibian amateur boxer
Tobias "Tobey" Maguire (born 1975), American actor and film producer
Tobias Matthay (1858–1945), English pianist and composer
Tobias Matthew (1546–1628), English Anglican archbishop of York
Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), German astronomer
Tobias Mealey (1823–1904), American early settler of Minnesota
Tobias Mehler (born 1976), Canadian actor
Tobias Menzies (born 1974), English actor
Tobias Michael Carel Asser (1838–1913), Dutch lawyer and legal scholar
Tobias Mikaelsson (born 1988), Swedish football player
Tobias Mikkelsen (born 1986), Danish football player
Tobias Moretti (born 1959), Austrian actor
Tobias Mullen (1818-1900), Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie
Tobias Müller (disambiguation)
Tobias Nath (born 1979), German television actor
Tobias Nickenig (born 1984), German footballer
Tobias Nicklas (born 1967), German scholar of religion
Tobias Norris (1861–1936), Canadian politician
Tobias Picker (born 1954), American composer and pianist
Tobias Pflüger (born 1965), German politician
Tobias A. Plants (1811–1887), U.S. Representative from Ohio
Tobias Pock (1609-1683), Austrian Baroque painter
Tobias Pullen (1648–1713), Irish bishop
Tobias Rahim (born 1989), Danish singer and poet
Tobias Rathgeb (born 1982), German football midfielder
Tobias Rau (born 1981), German footballer left back
Tobias Read (born 1975), American politician and member of the Oregon House of Representatives
Tobias Regner (born 1982), German singer and guitarist
Tobias Reinhardt (born 1971), German classical scholar
Tobias Rustat (c. 1606-1694), English courtier to Charles II
Tobias Sammet (born 1977), German musician and vocalist of Edguy
Tobias Schanfarber (1862–1942), American rabbi
Tobias Schellenberg (born 1978), German diver
Tobias Schenke (born 1981), German actor
Tobias Schiegl (born 1973), Austrian luger
Tobias Schneebaum (1922–2005), American artist and activist
Tobias Schneider (born 1981), German speedskater
Tobias Schönenberg (born 1986), German actor and film director
Tobias Schweinsteiger (born 1982), German footballer forward
Tobias Simon (1929–1982), Canadian-American civil rights lawyer
Tobias Sippel (born 1988), German footballer goalkeeper
Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
Tobias Smith (born 2003), known by the screenname Tubbo, an English Minecraft streamer
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), Scottish author and surgeon
Tobias Steinhauser (born 1972), German cyclist
Tobias Sten (born 2003), Norwegian country singer and songwriter
Tobias Stephan (born 1984), Swiss hockey goaltender
Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584), Swiss painter and illustrator
Tobias Summerer (born 1983), German tennis player
Tobias Tal (1847–1898), Dutch rabbi
Tobias Tornkvist (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player
Tobias Truvillion (born 1975), American actor and model
Tobias Unger (born 1979), German track-and-field athlete
Tobias Verhaecht (1561–1631), draughtsman from Antwerp
Tobias Verwey (born 1981), Namibian cricketer
Tobias Viklund (born 1986), Swedish ice hockey defenceman
Tobias Weis (born 1985), German footballer
Tobias Wendl (born 1987), German luger
Tobias Whitaker (fl. 1634–1661), English physician
Tobias Willi (born 1979), German football player
Tobias Wilner (born 1976), Danish musician and composer
Tobias Wolff (born 1945), American writer

Fictional characters with the given name

Tobias Beckett, a criminal in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story and mentor to Han Solo
Tobias Beecher, a prisonor from the 1997 TV series Oz
Tobias Eaton, the protagonist in the Divergent series of novels by Veronica Roth
Tobias Fornell, an FBI special agent on the CBS show NCIS
Tobias Fünke, a character on the 2003 sitcom Arrested Development
Tobias Gregson, a Scotland Yard inspector in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels
Tobias Jones, a detective from the Driver video games
Tobias Ragg, an apprentice barber in the musical Sweeney Todd
Tobias Rieper, a false name used by Agent 47 in the video game Hitman
Tobias Snape, father of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
Tobias Tenma, protagonist of the movie Astro Boy
Tobias Vaughn, an antagonist in the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Invasion
Tobias Whale, a criminal kingpin and villain in DC comics
Tobias Wilson, character on The Amazing World of Gumball
Jeff Tobias Winger, a character on the 2009 sitcom Community
Tobias 'Toby' Ziegler, the White House Communications Director in the TV drama The West Wing
Tobias, a character on the AMC drama Fear The Walking Dead
Tobias, a character on the CBS daytime drama series The Young and the Restless
Tobias, a minor character played by Gabriel Iglesias in Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL
Tobias, a character in the book series Animorphs and the Animorphs TV series
Tobias, a character in the video game The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

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Tobias

In various languages

People known by the mononym

People with given name

Fictional characters with the given name

See also