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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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