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How popular is the name Tobias?
Births per year, rank history and how many Tobiases are alive today.
Tobias (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 116th in 2025 with 461 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2016, when 647 babies were given the name, the 101st most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 13,000 babies have been named Tobias in England and Wales since 1996.
The Tobias you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Tobiases born in England and Wales are between 8 and 24, and there are at least 15,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 4.8% chance that at least one of them will be called Tobias.
How many babies are named Tobias each year?
Where does Tobias rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Tobias most popular?
Tobias peaked in 2016, when 647 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Tobias?
At least 15,000 people named Tobias born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Tobias?
Most living Tobiases are between 8 and 24; the most common age is about 9.
Is Tobias becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.