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Tobie - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Tobie

[ 2 syll. to-bie, tob-ie ] The boy name Tobie is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is TOWBiy KEY. Tobie is largely used in the French language and its origin is Hebrew. Tobie is a variant of the name Tobias (English, German, and Scandinavian).

Tobie is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1904, 0.006% of baby boys were given the name Tobie. It ranked at #957 then. The baby name has since experienced a fall in popularity, and is now of very light use. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Tobie, Tobias (English, German, and Scandinavian) was the most popular in 2008. Tobie has in the past century been mostly given to boys.

Baby names that sound like Tobie include Tobi (German), Toby (English), Taavi (Finnish), Tabib, Tabo (Spanish), Taffy (Welsh), Tavi (Hebrew), Tavo (Spanish), Tayib, Teppo (Finnish), Teuvo (Finnish), Teva (Hebrew), Tevye (Yiddish), Thibault (French), Topi (Finnish), Tovi, Tupi, Tuvya (Hebrew), Tab (English), and Taff (Welsh).

KEY: English pronunciation for Tobie: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"


 
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