Thobias

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Thobias has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2016. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Thobias, 2021

1 in 678,000

Thobias over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thobias: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thobias means

Thobias is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Thobias is used in Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Thobias between 2016 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2016; its best national rank was #13,875 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Thobias?

Thobias had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Thobias sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thobias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thobiass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thobias was born before 2016 — so the typical Thobias is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Thobias rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2016 (5)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,875; 2021

Spellings of Thobias

Thobias is not the most common spelling — Thomas is, with 98.7% against Thobias's <0.01%.

Thomas98.7%2,358,576
Tobias1.2%29,322
Tobiah0.03%683
Tabias0.02%529
Thobias<0.01%10

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Thobias around the world

Where Thobias ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2018–2018
#4,749
in 2018
France
1998–2024
#3,635
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Thobias by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,875; 2021
Peak year: 2016; 5 that year
First recorded: 2016
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Thobias

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Thomias Machias Thommas Thorben Kallias Aermias Thorfinn Thoburn Eremias Thorsen Thorval Thorald Thoralf Thomass Thorrin Endrias Zakhias Thorian Thoeun Thomason Micaias Thoreau Ahsaias Asaias

Sibling names for Thobias

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Ayesha Henley Annalee Raylee

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Kingsley

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