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tobias Name Meaning and History

English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish (Tobías), Hungarian (Tóbiás), and Jewish: from a Greek form of the Hebrew male personal name Tovyah ‘Jehovah is good’, which, together with various derivative forms, has been popular among Jews for generations.

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tobias Family Facts

Distribution of tobias Families in the US in 1920
Number of tobias families
 120-238
 41-119
 1-40
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