Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Thobias isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Thobias through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Thobias’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Thobias has a diminutive in Tobbe. In Swedish usage, Thobias has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form TOBIASZ.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Tobyequivalent
- Tobiequivalent
- Tuviaequivalent
- Tobieequivalent
- Tobiaequivalent
- Tóbiásequivalent
- Topiequivalent
- Tobiášequivalent
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Thobias
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.