Tobias is the romanization into Latin letters of the Koine Greek name , which itself is a Hellenization of the Biblical Hebrew name . 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

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 (); and a Jew traveling from Babylon to Jerusalem with precious metal for Zerubbabel ().

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 (), English soldier and officer

• Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979), Grenadian-American science fiction author

• Tobias Capwell (born ), 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 (), 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 (), 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 ( – 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 (-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 (), 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 Snape, father of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series

• 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

See also

• Tobias (surname)

• Tobais

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