Tobias
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Tobias is the transliteration of the Koine Greek: Τωβίας, which is a Hellenization of the Biblical Hebrew name טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, 'Yah is good', which is the name of several minor Biblical figures as well as the protagonist of the apocryphal Book of Tobit. Tobias is a popular male given name for both Christians and Jews in English-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, the Low Countries, and Scandinavian countries.
In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to Toby and derivative names include Tobey. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe.
In other languages
[edit | edit source]- 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
- 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
[edit | edit source]Biblical
[edit | edit source]Several people are called Tobias or similar names in the Bible era:
- Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the Book of Tobit
- Tobias the elder; the name used for Tobit in the Vulgate and Douay–Rheims Bible.
- 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).
- Tobiah (Ammonite) - a significant leader of the opponents of Nehemiah as recorded in that book.
- Tobiads, a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the Maccabean period
Other
[edit | edit source]- Tobias, Christian martyr, see Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions
- Tobias of Jerusalem, 2nd-century bishop
- Tobias (bishop of Rochester), died 726
People with given name
[edit | edit source]- Tobias (footballer, born 1949) (Brazilian footballer)
- Tobias Abse (professor)
- Tobias Abstreiter (hockey center)
- Tobias Angerer (cross country skier)
- Tobias Arlt (luger)
- Tobias Bamberg (magician)
- Tobias Barreto (critic/poet)
- Tobias Beer (actor)
- Tobias Bernstrup (contemporary artist)
- Tobias Billström (politician)
- Tobias Bjarneby (video game journalist)
- Tobias de Boer (scientist)
- Tobias Bogner (ski jumper)
- Tobias Bonhoeffer (neurobiologist)
- Tobias Bridge (Major-General in the First English Civil War)
- Tobias S. Buckell (science fiction author)
- Tobias Capwell (born c. 1973), American curator, military historian and jouster
- Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1975) (Kalmar FF footballer)
- Tobias Carlsson (footballer, born 1995) (BK Häcken footballer)
- Tobías Zúñiga Castro (politician)
- Tobias Cohn (17/18th century physician)
- Tobias Cole (countertenor)
- Tobias Cremer (politician)
- Tobias Joaquim Dai (politician)
- Tobias Dantzig (mathematician)
- Tobias Delius (musician)
- Tobias Dier (golfer)
- Tobias Dorzon (chef)
- Tobias Druitt (author, pseudonym)
- Tobiah ben Eliezer
- Tobias Ebenberger (politician)
- Tobias Ellwood (politician)
- Tobias Enhus (composer)
- Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman)
- Tobias Exxel (bass player from Edguy)
- Tobias Forge (musician - Repugnant, Subvision, Ghost)
- Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger)
- Tobias Frere-Jones (type designer)
- Tobias Furneaux (Royal Navy officer)
- Tobias Geffen (rabbi)
- Tobias Gentleman (fl. 1614, English mariner and writer)
- Tobias Grahn (Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder)
- Tobias Grünenfelder (Swiss alpine skier)
- Tobias Harris (National Basketball Association player)
- Tobias Hecht (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator)
- Tobías Hernández (Major League Baseball player)
- Tobias Hill (poet/novelist)
- Tobias Hoesl (German television actor)
- Tobias Hogan (1823–1904, politician from Monticello, Minnesota)
- Tobias Holmberg (Swedish Bandy player)
- Tobias Holmqvist (Swedish footballer)
- Tobias Hume (composer & soldier)
- Tobias Hysén (IFK Göteborg footballer)
- Tobias Jensen (Danish basketballer)
- Tobias Jesso Jr. (Canadian Songwriter of the year 2023 Grammy's)
- Tobias Jones (writer) (author & journalist)
- Tobias Jonsson (born 1996), Swedish Paralympic athlete
- Tobias Jørgensen (born 2000), Danish Paralympic equestrian
- Tobias Kamke (German tennis player)
- Tobias Karkulowski (Finnish footballer)
- Tobias Karlsson (songwriter) (Swedish record producer)
- Tobias Kassung (German classical guitarist and composer)
- Tobias Krantz (Swedish politician)
- Tobías Lasser (Venezuelan botanist)
- Tobias Lear V (personal secretary)
- Tobias Levels (German-Dutch footballer)
- Tobias Lindemann (German architect, designer and media entrepreneur)
- Tobias Linderoth (Galatasaray midfielder)
- Tobias Lohner (1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian)
- Tobias Mabuta Munihango (Namibian amateur boxer)
- Tobias Maguire (actor and film producer)
- Tobias Matthay (teacher & composer)
- Tobias Matthew (archbishop of York)
- Tobias Mayer (astronomer)
- Tobias Mehler (Canadian actor)
- Tobias Menzies (actor)
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser (jurist)
- Tobias Mikaelsson (Swedish football player)
- Tobias Mikkelsen (Danish football player)
- Tobias Moretti (actor)
- Tobias Mullen (1818-1900, Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie)
- Tobias Müller (disambiguation)
- Tobias Nath (German television actor)
- Tobias Nickenig (German footballer)
- Tobias Norris (politician)
- Tobias Picker (composer)
- Tobias Pflüger (politician)
- Tobias A. Plants (1811 – 1887, U.S. Representative from Ohio)
- Tobias Pock (Austrian Baroque painter)
- Tobias Pullen (Irish bishop)
- Tobias Rahim (Danish singer and poet)
- Tobias Rathgeb (German football midfielder)
- Tobias Rau (retired German footballer)
- Tobias Read (member of the Oregon House of Representatives)
- Tobias Regner (musician)
- Tobias Reinhardt (classical scholar)
- Tobias Rustat (1606?-1694, benefactor of the University of Cambridge)
- Tobias Sammet (vocalist from Edguy)
- Tobias Schellenberg (competitive diver)
- Tobias Schenke (German actor)
- Tobias Schiegl (Austrian luger)
- Tobias Schneebaum (artist & activist)
- Tobias Schneider (German speedskater)
- Tobias Schönenberg (actor & photomodel)
- Tobias Schweinsteiger (German footballer)
- Tobias Simon (Miami civil rights lawyer)
- Tobias Sippel (German football goalkeeper)
- Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
- Tobias Smith (English Twitch Streamer)
- Tobias Smollett (Scottish author)
- Tobias Steinhauser (former German cyclist)
- Tobias Stephan (hockey goaltender)
- Tobias Stimmer (painter & illustrator)
- Tobias Summerer (German tennis player)
- Tobias Tal (Dutch rabbi)
- Tobias Tornkvist (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player
- Tobias Truvillion (African-American actor)
- Tobias Unger (athlete)
- Tobias Verhaecht (draughtsman)
- Tobias Verwey (Namibian cricketer)
- Tobias Viklund (Swedish ice hockey defenceman)
- Tobias Weis (German footballer)
- Tobias Wendl (German luger)
- Tobias Whitaker, English physician
- Tobias Willi (former German football player)
- Tobias Wilner (Danish musician and film director)
- Tobias Wolff (writer)
Fictional characters with the given name
[edit | edit source]- Tobias Beckett, character in Solo: A Star Wars Story and mentor to Han Solo
- Tobias Beecher, character from the TV series Oz
- Tobias Fornell, character on the CBS show NCIS
- Tobias Fünke, character on the Fox sitcom Arrested Development
- Tobias Gregson character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels
- Detective Tobias Jones, character from the Driver video games
- Tobias, character on the CBS daytime drama series The Young and the Restless
- Tobias Snape, father of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
- Tobias Eaton, a protagonist in a series of novels by Veronica Roth known as the Divergent trilogy
- Jeffery Tobias Winger, character on the sitcom Community
- Tobias Wilson, character on The Amazing World of Gumball
- Tobias Zachary Ziegler, character on The West Wing
- Tobias, character on the AMC drama Fear The Walking Dead
- Tobias, character on Pokémon, see List of Pokémon anime characters
- Tobias, a minor character played by Gabriel Iglesias in Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL
- Tobias Tenma, protagonist of the movie Astro Boy
- Tobias, character in the book series Animorphs and its TV adaptation
- Tobias Ragg, from musical Sweeney Todd
- Tobias Rieper, false name used by Agent 47 on the video game Hitman
- Tobias, character in the video game The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
- Tobias Vaughn, an antagonist in the Doctor Who serial The Invasion
- Tobias Whale, character in DC comics
- Tobias Zachary Ziegler, character in the TV drama The West Wing
