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tobias Name Meaning and History

English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish (Tobías), Hungarian (Tóbiás), and Jewish: from a Greek form of the Hebrew male personal name Tovyah ‘Jehovah is good’, which, together with various derivative forms, has been popular among Jews for generations.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the tobias family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of tobias Families in the US in 1920
Number of tobias families
 120-238
 41-119		 1-40
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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