Tobiah

Where Tobiah comes from

From the Hebrew name טוֹבִיָּה (Toviyyah, “Yahweh is good”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tobiah
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,907 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #2,665
    16 babies named Tobiah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.