Thobias
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thobias is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 362K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 2.7K
- NANamibia≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thobias 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Thobias | 28 |
| BR Brazil | 585 | 1 in 362K | 585 | Thobias | 60 |
| SE Sweden | 496 | 1 in 21K | 496 | Thobias | 20 |
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Thobias | 52 |
| NL Netherlands | 192 | 1 in 90K | 192 | Thobias | 15 |
| NA Namibia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | — | 5 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Thobias | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 144 | 1 in 41K | 144 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Thobias is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a male given name, a rather rare nonstandard spelling of Tobias
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thobias Petter Wiibeb. 1815NONorwegian businessman and politician
- Thobias Fredrikssonb. 1975SESwedish cross-country skier
- Thobias Fäldtb. 1978SESwedish photographer
- Thobias Ndungub. 1992Danish association football player
- Thobias Montlerb. 1996SESwedish athlete
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #42,595 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Thobias a male or female name?
- Thobias is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Thobias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Thobias in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thobias.
- How common is the name Thobias?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 585 people named Thobias in 2022, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thobias?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thobiasThe 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, “Thobias”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.