Tuvia
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Tuvia is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
- PLPoland1 in 2.7M
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. 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named טוביה, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis, est.
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, DE Germany.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #552 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 508 | טוביה | 41 |
| US United States | — | 553as Tobiah | 1 in 602K | 515 | Tuvia | 103 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 21as Tobiah | 1 in 823K | 21 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 14 | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | טוביה | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | 1 | טוביה | 13 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 2 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1as Tobiah | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 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); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, 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. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Tuvia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named טוביה in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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 Israel, Tuvia is the 552nd most common given name of 107,303 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/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 552nd most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.