Details for the forename Tobias

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Tobias (male)


Variants:	Teive (M) Tevye (M) Tobiah (M) Toby (M) Topaz (M) Tuvia (M)
Pet Name(s):	Toby (M)

Source(s):	English Parish Register freereg.rootsweb.com The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:	English from Hebrew "God is good"; OT passim. Toby is the more usual English derivation from Tobias which was used, with appropriate case endings, in place of Toby in old documents in Latin.