Tobias



Tobias is the transliteration of the, which is a Graecisation of the Hebrew biblical name טוֹבִיה. With the biblical Book of Tobit being present in the Deuterocanonical books and Biblical apocrypha, 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

 * Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese: Tobias
 * Amharic: ጦቢያ Ṭobiya
 * Catalan: Tobies
 * Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias
 * Croatian: Tobijaš
 * Finnish: Topias, Topi
 * French: Tobie
 * Greek: Τωβίας (Tobías) or  (Tovias) 
 * Hebrew: טוֹבִיה (Tovyah), Tovia, Tuvya
 * Hungarian: Tóbiás
 * Irish: Tóibias
 * Italian: Tobia
 * Lithuanian: Tobijas
 * Polish: Tobiasz
 * Russian: Товий (Toviy)
 * Spanish: Tobías
 * Slovak: Tobiáš
 * Yiddish: טבֿיה (Tevye)
 * Burmese: တိုဘိယ (Tobiya)

Biblical
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 travelling 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

 * 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

 * 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 Beecher (from the TV series Oz)
 * 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 Ellwood (politician)
 * Tobias Enhus (composer)
 * Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman)
 * Tobias Exxel (bass player from Edguy)
 * Tobias Forge (musician - Repugnant, Subvision, Ghost)
 * Tobias Fornell (character on the TV series "NCIS")
 * 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 Gregson (fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels)
 * 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)
 * Detective Tobias Jones (fictional character)
 * Tobias Jones (writer) (author & journalist)
 * Tobias Kamke (German tennis player)
 * 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 Palmer (American football player)
 * 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 Ragg (from musical Sweeney Todd)
 * 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 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 Whale (fictional character in DC comics)
 * Tobias Whitaker, English physician
 * Tobias Willi (former German football player)
 * Tobias Wilner (Danish musician and film director)
 * Tobias Wolff (writer)
 * Tobias Zachary Ziegler (fictional character in the TV drama The West Wing)

Fictional characters with the given name

 * Tobias Beckett, character in Solo: A Star Wars Story and mentor to Han Solo
 * Tobias Fornell, character on the CBS show NCIS
 * Tobias Fünke, character on the Fox sitcom Arrested Development
 * 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 Tenma, protagonist of the movie Astro Boy
 * Tobias, character in the book series Animorphs and its TV adaptation
 * Tobias Rieper, false name used by Agent 47 on the video game Hitman
 * Tobias, character in the video game The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard