Tobey

Tobey is the 8,963rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,503 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 85,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,503
Rank: 8,963rd
How common: 1 in 85,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tobey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Tobey

Mark Tobey (1890–1976)American painter
Kenneth Tobey (1917–2002)American actor
Mike Tobey (born 1994)Slovenian-American basketball player

People named Tobey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tobey

Also a first name

Tobey has been given to 2,456 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.