Tobias

Tobias walks with an archangel. From the Greek form of the Hebrew Toviyahu, "Yahweh is good," the name belongs to the young hero of the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, whose journey under the protection of the angel Raphael became one of the most painted stories of the Italian Renaissance. Toby is the long-standing nickname, but the full Tobias has surged in the last decade, entering the US top 300 for the first time in 2018 and now sitting at 280. Three long syllables, the bright T, the open long I. Biblical without piety, European without stiffness. A name for a child who asks the good questions.