Tobias is the transliteration of the which is a translation of the Hebrew biblical name . With the biblical Book of Tobit being present in the Deuterocanonical books and Biblical apocrypha, Tobias is a popular male given name for both Christians and Jews in English-speaking countries, German-speaking countries, the Low Countries, and Scandinavian countries. In English-speaking countries, it is often shortened to Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobias or Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname. In other languages Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese: Tobias Amharic: ጦቢያ Ṭobiya Catalan: Tobies Czech: Tobiáš, Tobias Croatian: Tobijaš Finnish: Topias, Topi French: Tobie Greek: Τωβίας (Tobías) Hebrew: Tovia, Tuvya Hungarian: Tóbiás Italian: Tobia (name) Lithuanian: Tobijas Polish: Tobiasz Russian: Товий (Toviy) Spanish: Tobías Slovak: Tobiáš Yiddish: טבֿיה (Tevye) Only name Biblical Several people are called Tobias or similar names in the Bible era: Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the Book of Tobit Tobias the elder; the name used for Tobit in the Vulgate and Douay–Rheims Bible. Tobijah, two persons mentioned in the Bible: a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:8) and a Jew travelling from Babylon to Jerusalem with precious metal for Zerubbabel (Zechariah 6:10,14). Tobiah (Ammonite) - a significant leader of the opponents of Nehemiah as recorded in that book. Tobiads, a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the Maccabean period Other Tobias, Christian martyr, see Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions Tobias of Jerusalem, 2nd-century bishop Tobias (bishop of Rochester), died 726 Given name Tobias Abse (professor) Tobias Abstreiter (hockey center) Tobias Angerer (cross country skier) Tobias Arlt (luger) Tobias Bamberg (magician) Tobias Barreto (critic/poet) Tobias Beecher (from the TV series Oz) Tobias Beer (actor) Tobias Bernstrup (contemporary artist) Tobias Billström (politician) Tobias Bjarneby (video game journalist) Tobias de Boer (scientist) Tobias Bogner (ski jumper) Tobias Bonhoeffer (neurobiologist) Tobias Bridge (Major-General in the First English Civil War) Tobias S. Buckell (science fiction author) Tobias Capwell (born ), American curator, military historian and jouster Tobias Carlsson (Kalmar FF footballer) Tobías Zúñiga Castro (politician) Tobias Cohn (17/18th century physician) Tobias Cole (countertenor) Tobias Joaquim Dai (politician) Tobias Dantzig (mathematician) Tobias Delius (musician) Tobias Dier (golfer) Tobias Druitt (author, pseudonym) Tobiah ben Eliezer Tobias Ellwood (politician) Tobias Enhus (composer) Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman) Tobias Exxel