Tobias Family History
Tobias Name Meaning
English German Dutch and Jewish; Spanish (Tobías); Hungarian (Tóbiás); Czech (Tobiáš) and Slovak (Tobiaš Tobiáš Tóbiáš Tóbiaš): from the Biblical personal name Tobias (Spanish Tobías Hungarian Tóbiás Czech and Slovak Tobiáš) from a Greek and Latin form of the Hebrew name Tovyah ‘Jehovah is good’ which together with various derivative forms has been popular among Jews for generations. Among Christians it has been in use in the earliest time already. Germanized or Americanized form of Polish Tobiasz or Croatian Tobijaš a cognate of 1 above. Slovenian: from a German or Latin form of the Biblical personal name Tobija (see 1 above). In North America this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Tobijas.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022