Tobin Family History
- Tobin Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Tóibín, which is itself a reduced Gaelicized version of a Norman habitational name from Saint-Aubin in Brittany (so called from the dedication of its church to St. Albin). English: from a pet form of the personal name Tobias or Toby. Dutch: patronymic from Tobias.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 738,203 Historical Documents with Tobin on Ancestry
- 278,656 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 165,983 Census and Voter Lists
- 33,936 Military Records
- 33,258 Immigration Records
- 226,370 Member Trees
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Number of Tobin families
 320 - 638  107 - 319 |
 1 - 106  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tobin families
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147 - 292 50 - 146 |
1 - 49 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tobin families
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17 - 31 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tobin census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tobin census records
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- All Tobin
- 357
- Confederate
- 85
- Union
- 272
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