Tuvia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tuvia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 6.6Kas טוביה
- USUnited States1 in 602Kas Tobiah
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tuvia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named טוביה, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled טוביה in IL Israel, PL Poland, RO Romania and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tuvia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #783 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | טוביה | 3 |
| RO Romania | #648 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | טוביה | 2 |
| IL Israel | #552 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 508 | טוביה | 41 |
| US United States | — | 553as Tobiah | 1 in 602K | 515 | Tuvia | 103 |
| LB Lebanon | #898 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | טוביה | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | טוביה | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 14 | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | טוביה | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 2 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Tuvia 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.
Jewish: modern Hebrew form of TOBIAS . Cognates: Yiddish: Tevye, Teive .
as a word
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)
- Tobia ben Elieserb. 1080GRnot in their usual nameJewish poet
- Tobias Lewensteinb. 1863SRnot in their usual nameChief Rabbi of Denmark (1903-1910)
- Toviyah Ashkenazib. 1904ILorientalist and ethnologist
- Toviyah Shamoshb. 1912ILIsraeli writer and translator (1912-1982)
- Tuviah Friedmanb. 1922PLnot in their usual nameHolocaust survivor; Nazi hunter (1922-2011)
- Tuvia Rübnerb. 1924ILSlovakian-born Israeli poet (1924-2019)
- Tuvia Tzafirb. 1945ILIsraeli actor
- Tuvia Hod-Hochwaldb. 1949ILGerman rabbi
- Tuvia Tenenbomb. 1957USAmerican theatre director
- Tuvia Rosenfeldb. 1972ILIsraeli actor
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 239 | #34,047 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #7,628 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 14 | #8,499 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Tuvia a male or female name?
- Tuvia 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 Tuvia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named טוביה in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tuvia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tuvia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though Ethiopia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tuvia?
- In Poland, the national register counted 14 people named Tuvia in 2026, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Tuvia compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Tuvia is the 783rd most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tuvia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tuviaThe 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, “Tuvia” — the 783rd most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.