Fun Facts About the Name Tuvia
- 247 babies named Tuvia: U.S. records list 247 babies given the name Tuvia from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Tuvia Mean?
Tuvia is a Hebrew name meaning "God is good" or "Yah is good." It is built from two Hebrew elements: tov (טוֹב), "good," and Yah (יָהּ), a shortened form of the divine name YHWH that appears in many Hebrew personal names. The same name is written Toviyah (טוֹבִיָּה) in the Hebrew Bible and is normally rendered Tobiah or Tobijah in English Bibles; its Greek form is Tobias (Τωβίας). Tuvia is the form and pronunciation used in modern Hebrew. Read as a sentence, the name declares that Yah is good; because Hebrew can also join the two words as a construct phrase, it is sometimes translated more loosely as "the goodness of God."
Tuvia Name History & Origins
The name is attested in the Hebrew Bible as Toviyah. In the Book of Nehemiah, Tobiah the Ammonite is a persistent opponent of Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall. In Zechariah 6, a Tobijah is among the men sent to crown the high priest Joshua, and in 2 Chronicles 17:8 a Levite named Tobijah is one of those sent by King Jehoshaphat to teach the law in the towns of Judah. A governor named Tobiah also appears in the Aramaic documents of the Jewish community at Elephantine in the fifth century BCE, and some scholars connect him with the Tobiah of Nehemiah.
In Greek the name took the form Tobias (Τωβίας), borne by the son of Tobit in the Book of Tobit, a Jewish story preserved in Greek and Latin and counted in the Catholic and Orthodox canons but not in the Hebrew Bible. Through the Latin Bible, Tobias became common in Christian Europe and produced the English short form Toby. The Hebrew form ending in -yah remained in Jewish use, and Tuvia (also spelled Tuvya) is a regular modern Israeli Hebrew name. Its Yiddish relative Tevye is the name used for the dairyman in Sholem Aleichem's stories, the character later adapted for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
How Popular is the Name Tuvia?
Tuvia has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2015. Its best rank was #5,492 in 2015.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,851 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #8,890 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #7,683 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #7,716 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #13,909 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #6,587 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2019 | #12,023 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #9,597 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #9,614 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #9,600 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2015 | #5,492 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2014 | #9,564 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #8,059 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #8,091 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #8,024 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2010 | #10,672 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2009 | #6,066 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2008 | #8,963 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #8,863 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #11,951 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #9,037 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #8,106 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2003 | #9,519 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2001 | #12,196 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #11,506 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #8,798 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #8,737 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #7,212 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #6,898 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Tuvia Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You like to control everyone within your influence, to shape things to your own liking. If positive, you develop high spirituality, as you have a God's protection. You are sensitive, affectionate, imaginative and cooperative, spiritually aware and prone to self-sacrifice. You can keep secrets and are a good diplomat. You may have healing and psychic powers. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.
You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.
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