Tobias

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Tobias is ranked 280th among boys in 2024 (1,210 births). Its best rank was 246th, in 2016.

Rank in 2024: #280down 1 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,2100.07% of boys
Peak year: 20161,523 births
Best rank: #246in 2016
Since 1880: 28,093people given the name

Babies named Tobias, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

28,093 boys have been named Tobias in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 1,523 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 418 → 280).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 33%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Tobias
1880s	38
1890s	23
1900s	37
1910s	144
1920s	155
1930s	107
1940s	160
1950s	243
1960s	576
1970s	2,102
1980s	1,808
1990s	2,266
2000s	4,805
2010s	9,404
2020s	6,225

In 2016, its biggest year

Tobias was the 246th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Tobias

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.