Tobiaš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Tobiaš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Ancient Greek Τοβίας (Tobías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “YHWH is good”).
- DKDenmark1 in 384(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 809
- FIFinland1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 312 (inferred from the name graph)
32,751 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tobias in NO Norway, SE Sweden, US United States and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Ancient Greek Τοβίας (Tobías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “YHWH is good”).
Cited for this meaning 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tobiaš counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 32,751 | 1 in 312 | 33K | Tobias | 11 |
| US United States | — | 20,558 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Tobias | 31 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15,281 | 1 in 384 | 15K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | #541 | 13,234 | 1 in 809 | 13K | Tobias | 63 |
| NO Norway | — | 11,048 | 1 in 495 | 42K | Tobias | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,157 | 1 in 2.6K | 3.6K | — | 2 |
| BJ Benin | #447 | — | — | — | Tobias | 3 |
32,751 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #50,782 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tobiaš mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Ancient Greek Τοβίας (Tobías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “YHWH is good”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 8 other sources.
- In which country does Tobiaš have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Tobiaš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tobias.
- Where is Tobiaš most common?
- Tobiaš is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 312 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tobiaš?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 32,751 people named Tobiaš, about 1 in 312 residents.
- How common is Tobiaš compared with other names?
- In Benin, Tobiaš is the 447th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tobia%C5%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tobiaš” — the 447th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.