# Tobias

Tobias is the transliteration of the Koinē Greek: Τωβίας, which is a Graecisation of the Hebrew biblical name טוֹבִיה, Toviyah, 'Yah is good'. 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
* Burmese: တိုဘိယ (Tobiya)
* Catalan: Tobies
* Chinese (Simplified): 托拜厄斯 (Tuōbàièsī)
* Chinese (Traditional):託比亞斯 (Tuōbǐyǎsī)
* Croatian: Tobijaš
* Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias
* Finnish: Topias, Topi
* French: Tobie
* Greek: Τωβίας (Tobías) or (Tovias)
* Hebrew: טוֹבִיה (Tovyah), Tovia, Tuvya
* Hungarian: Tóbiás
* Irish: Tóibias
* Italian: Tobia
* Kazakh: Тобиас (Tobïas)
* Kurdish: Tobîas
* Latgalian: Tobijas
* Lithuanian: Tobijas
* Occitan: Tòbiàs
* Polish: Tobiasz
* Russian: Товий (Toviy)
* Slovak: Tobiáš
* Spanish: Tobías
* Ukrainian: Товія (Toviya)
* Yiddish: טבֿיה (Tevye)

## People known by the mononym
### 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 Ebenberger (politician)
* 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 Jonsson (born 1996), Swedish Paralympic athlete
* Tobias Jørgensen (born 2000), Danish Paralympic equestrian
* 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 Smith (English Twitch Streamer)
* 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
* Tobias Vaughn, an antagonist in the Doctor Who serial The Invasion