Tobias

13,875 people in the United States were counted with the surname Tobias in the 2020 census, making it the 2,538th most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,875
Rank: 2,538th
How common: 1 in 21,500
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 52.0%
Hispanic or Latino 27.1%
Black, not Hispanic 13.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Tobias

Rudolf Tobias (1873–1918)Estonian composer
Nataliya Tobias (born 1980)athletics competitor
John Tobias (born 1969)American artist and video game designer
George Tobias (1901–1980)actor
Jesse Tobias (born 1972)American musician
Oliver Tobias (born 1947)British actor
Isabella Tobias (born 1991)American ice dancer

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

Surnames like Tobias

Also a first name

Tobias has been given to 29,322 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. 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.