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Tobia

Boys' name

My good is YHWH

Tobia has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 1991, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Tobia, 1991

1 in 779,000

Tobia over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tobia: meaning, origin, and history

My good is YHWH

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tobia means

Tobia means “my good is YHWH”, associated with toviyá.

Origin, language, and formation

Tobia is used in Italian.

Tobia comes through Ancient Greek Τωβίας and Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Tobia is pronounced /toˈbi.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Tobia between 1991 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1991; its best national rank was #9,506 in 1991.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tobia?

Tobia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 779,000
5 of 3,892,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 404,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
539,676 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tobia 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 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tobia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tobias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tobia was born before 1991 — so the typical Tobia is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Tobia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (5)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,506
1991

Spellings of Tobia

Tobia is not the most common spelling — Robin is, with 32.9% against Tobia's <0.01%.

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.

Tobia around the world

Where Tobia 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
    2010–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2004–2022
    #5,687
    in 2022

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.

Tobia 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
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Best rank ever
#9,506
1991
Peak year
1991
5 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tobia

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

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Sibling names for Tobia

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

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