Toby
Toby is a given name in many English speaking countries. The name is derived the Middle English vernacular form of Tobias. Tobias itself is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew טוביה Toviah, which translates to Good is Yahweh. Yahweh is the name of the Jewish God.
It is also used as a contraction of Tobin, an Irish surname now also used as a forename.
The name is traditionally masculine, but has also been in use for women since the 19th century.
Men
- Toby Aaron Hamilton, known by their stage name 6arelyhuman, American Singer-Songwriter
- Toby Adamson, English rugby league footballer
- Toby Ajala, English footballer
- Toby Albert, English cricketer
- Toby Alderweireld, Belgian professional football player
- Toby Amies, English filmmaker and broadcaster
- Toby Anstis, British radio and television broadcaster
- Toby Aromolaran, English footballer and television personality
- Toby Bailey, American sports agent former professional basketball player
- Toby Balding, British racehorse trainer
- Toby Barker, American politician
- Toby Barrett, Canadian politician
- Edmund "Toby" Barton, first prime minister of Australia
- Toby Berger, American information theorist
- Toby Bluth, American painter
- Toby Britton, Jersey cricketer
- Toby Buckland, English
- Toby Burke, Australian musician
- Toby Cadman, British international lawyer
- Toby Chance, South African politician
- Toby Charles, football commentator
- Toby Chauncy, British lawyer and politician
- Toby Chu, American composer
- Toby Clarke, British baronet and businessman
- Toby Colbeck, English cricketer
- Toby Collyer, English footballer
- Toby Conway, Australian rules footballer
- Toby Cosgrove, American surgeon
- Toby Couchman, Australian rugby league footballer
- Toby Crabel, American commodities trader
- Toby Creswell, Australian music journalist and writer
- Toby Cunliffe-Steel, New Zealand athlete and advocate
- Toby Curtis, New Zealand educator
- Toby Davis, British racing driver
- Toby Dawson, Korean American mogul skier
- Toby Dodge, English political scientist
- Toby Down, English-born Hong Kong footballer
- Toby Driver, American musician
- Toby Edser, English footballer
- Toby Elder, Australian rules footballer
- Tobias "Toby" Ellwood, British politician, soldier, and author
- Toby Emmerich, American film producer
- Toby Everett, English rugby league footballer
- Toby Foster, English comedic actor
- Toby Fox, American musician and video game designer
- Toby Foyeh, British-Nigerian musician
- Toby Fricker, American rugby union player
- Toby Froud, English-American artist and puppeteer
- Tobias Toby Gad, Los Angeles-based German music producer and songwriter
- Toby Garbett, British rower
- Toby Gard, English video game character designer
- Toby Gardenhire, American baseball player and manager
- Toby Gee, British mathematician
- Toby Gerhart, American National Football League player
- Toby Gilmore, English name of Shibodee Turrey Wurry, slave and soldier in the American Revolutionary War
- Toby Goodman, American politician
- Toby Goodshank, musical artist
- Toby Gowin, American football player
- Toby Green, British historian
- Toby Green, English publisher
- Toby Greene, Australian rules footballer
- Toby Hadoke, English actor, writer, and comedian
- Toby Hall, American baseball player
- Toby Hampson, American judge
- Toby Harnden, American artist and journalist
- Toby Harrah, American baseball player and coach
- Toby Harries, British athlete
- Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey, British Labour Party politician
- Toby Haynes, British television director
- Toby Hemingway, English actor
- Toby Henderson, American bicycle motocross racer
- Gary Toby Herald, American politician
- Toby J. Heytens, American judge
- Toby Hill, Scottish trade unionist
- Toby Howard, English academic
- Toby Howarth, Church of England bishop
- Toby Huff, American academic
- Toby Hughes, English cricketer
- Toby Hull, British entertainer
- Toby Huss, American actor
- Toby Imada, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Toby Jackson, American football player
- Toby James, British political scientist
- Toby Jenkins, Australian water polo player
- Toby Jepson, English guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- Toby Jessel, British politician
- Toby or Theobald Jones, Irish Royal Navy admiral, Tory politician, lichenologist and fossil collector
- Toby Jones, English actor
- Toby Kane, Australian para-alpine skier
- Toby Kebbell, British actor
- Toby Keith Covel, American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and actor
- Toby King, English rugby league player
- Toby King, English footballer
- Toby Kodat, American tennis player
- Toby Korrodi, American football player
- Toby Lanzer, U.S. official
- Toby Love, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
- TobyMac, American Christian hip-hop artist
- Tobey Maguire, American actor
- Toby Martin, musical artist
- Toby McGrath, Australian rules footballer
- Toby Meltzer, American surgeon
- Anthony Toby Moffett, American politician
- Toby Moll, South African rugny union player
- Toby Nankervis, Australian rules footballer
- Toby Neugebauer, American businessman
- Toby Ng, Canadian badminton player
- Toby Nixon, American politician
- Toby Olubi, British bobsledder
- Toby Ord, Australian philosopher
- Toby Pazner, pianist
- Toby Peirce, English retired cricketer
- Toby Philpott, English puppeteer
- Toby Price, Australian motorcycle racer
- Toby Radloff, American actor
- Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, nicknamed “Toby“, English sportsman and intelligence officer
- Toby Regbo, English actor
- Toby Riddle, Modoc woman, U.S. Army interpreter
- Toby Roberts, British rock climber
- Toby Robinson, English swimmer
- Toby Roche, English field hockey player
- Toby E. Rodes, Swiss business consultant and design critic
- Toby Roland-Jones, English cricketer
- Toby Rollox, West Indian cricketer and umpire
- Toby Romeo, Austrian DJ and producer
- Toby Ross, American film director
- Toby Roth, American politician
- Toby Rudolf, Australian rugby league footballer
- Toby Salmon, English rugby union player
- Toby Samuel, British tennis player
- Toby Sandeman, English actor, model, and sprinter
- Toby Savin, English footballer
- Toby Scheckter, South African racing driver
- Toby Schmitz, Australian actor and playwright
- Toby Scott, American record producer
- Toby Sebastian, British actor
- Toby Sedgwick, British movement director
- Toby Sexsmith, Canadian politician and ice hockey administrator
- Toby Sexton, Australian rugby league footballer
- Toby Sheldon, a Justin Bieber look-alike
- Toby Sibbick, Ugandan footballer
- Toby Simkin, English theatrical producer and impresario
- Toby Sims, English footballer
- Toby Slater, British singer-songwriter
- Toby Smith, English musician
- Toby Smith , Australian rugby union footballer
- Toby Sowery, British racing driver
- Toby Spence, British vocalist
- Toby Spribille, North American lichenologist
- Toby Stafford, British mathematician
- Toby Stephens, English actor
- Toby Stevenson, American pole vaulter
- Toby Stevenson, English footballer
- Toby Steward, English footballer
- Toby Stock, American legal scholar
- Toby Studebaker, American soldier and criminal
- Toby Suzuki, business executive
- Toby Tarrant, radio presenter and broadcaster
- Toby Thurstans, Australian rules footballer
- Toby Tiangco, Filipino politician
- Toby Toman, British rock drummer
- Toby Truslove, Australian actor
- Tobias Toby Turner, American internet personality, actor, comedian and musician
- Toby Vintcent, British writer and politician
- Toby Wallace, Australian actor
- Toby Weathersby, American football player
- Toby Wilkinson, English Egyptologist and academic
- Toby Wright, American record producer and mixing engineer
- Toby Wright , American retired National Football League player
- Toby Wright , British Anglican priest
- Toby Young, British journalist
- Toby Yurek, American politician
Women
- Toby Lerner Ansin, American founder of the Miami City Ballet
- Toby Buonagurio, American artist
- Toby Claude, Irish actress and singer in vaudeville
- Toby Dancer, Canadian pianist and music producer
- Toby Fine, South African ballet dancer
- Toby Knobel Fluek, American Jewish artist born in Poland
- Toby Fournier, Canadian college basketball player
- Toby T. Gati, American government official
- Toby Hendy, New Zealand science communicator and YouTuber
- Toby Kiers, American evolutionary biologist
- Toby Leung, Cantopop singer and actress from Hong Kong
- Toby Lightman, American singer-songwriter
- Toby Orenstein, American theatre founder, producer, and director
- Toby Riddle, Modoc interpreter
- Toby Robins, Canadian actress of film, stage and television
- Toby Saks, American cellist
- Toby Ann Stavisky, American politician
- Toby Tarnow, Canadian actress
- Toby Tse, Hong Kong professional squash player
- Toby Wing, American actress and showgirl
Fictional characters
- Sir Toby Belch, from Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
- Toby Cavanaugh, in the second book of the Pretty Little Liars series and a recurring character on the TV series of the same name
- Toby Damon, on the TV series This Is Us
- Toby Flenderson, on the TV series The Office
- Toby Hamee, from the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate
- Toby Isaacs, on the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Toby Mangel, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Toby Masuyo, character from Baraduke
- Toby Mills, on the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Toby Mitchell, protagonist of the 1960s Canadian TV series Toby
- Toby Tyler, protagonist of the children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus and the film adaptation Toby Tyler
- Toby Waller, the slave name of Kunta Kinte in the Alex Haley novel Roots and the television adaptation
- Toby Ziegler, the White House Communications Director in the TV series The West Wing
- Toby the Tram Engine, from The Railway Series and ''Thomas & Friends
- Uncle Toby, in the novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Toby, a dog in traditional British Punch and Judy puppet shows
- Toby the Pup, in theatrical cartoons during 1930 and 1931
- Toby, on the animated series Beyblade: Metal Masters
- Toby, partial bloodhound in the Sherlock Holmes tale "The Sign of Four"
- Toby, the anthropomorphic cactus in the children's TV series Sheriff Callie's Wild West
- Toby, the invisible demonic entity in the horror film Paranormal Activity 3
- Toby, the baby in the film Labyrinth
- Toby, the boy in the film Astro Boy''