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Tobias

by Fleur (guest)

11/23/2011, 5:08 PM

TObias... I have fallen for the name these past few days. IDK, it's in Sweeney Todd (Love Sweeney Todd) and also in HP. WDYT???

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- Flare En Kuldes (arwentroi)

11/25/2011, 3:36 PM

I might be the only person in the world who doesn't like it. It's just too old-mannish for me, and the word "bias" sticks out. But I wouldn't consider it a bad name.

- bex (guest)

11/25/2011, 1:26 AM

My oldest favorite

My very very very first name love!

I named my Bear Tobias Maxwell when I was five. No idea where I got it from, I had never met a Tobias.. I adore it. :)

- Alcyone

11/24/2011, 7:46 AM

I like Tobias. It seems simultaneously stalwart and refined. It's a handsome name. I don't care for Toby, though.

- Billina

11/24/2011, 7:42 AM

Makes me think of "Arrested Development". Pass.

- Llewella (penguiny7)

11/24/2011, 4:10 AM

It's my cat's name

I got him when I was 10 and named him after the character in Animorphs.

I like it, I guess. It's always made me think of monks.

- insane romantic

11/24/2011, 12:49 AM

I love Tobias!

I would use Toby as a nickname.

- Delphi_Blue

11/24/2011, 12:16 AM

Two thumbs up. I love it. Nice story behind it. Cute nn option, if you want it, but avoidable if you don't. Ages well. Unusual. Nice sound. So all around a good choice IMO.

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- vigdis (guest)

11/24/2011, 12:02 AM

Love it

Although lately I've started preferring Thaddeus.

- Edith Therese (NamesAreAwesome)

11/23/2011, 9:59 PM

Oh my gosh!!!!! I LOVE IT!

- Pink Princess

11/23/2011, 9:48 PM

Tobias is a great name, I like it a lot. Toby is a cute nn too.

- GiGi (Donham)

11/23/2011, 8:28 PM

I like it, but I think I like Tobin more.
It might have something to do with the mean-spirited Tobias who was in my first grade class...

- Serafina Starstrider

11/23/2011, 8:00 PM

I love Tobias. My partner's best friend often had a roleplaying character named Tobias. I got very use to the name and really started to like it in high school. These days I like it even more since I think Toby is a great nn for Tobias when he's younger and then when he's older he can go by Tobias if he wants to have a more mature sounding name. I like how it's a fairly known name but also how unusual it is. I also love boys names that end in ias, ius, is, as and us.

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- Catalina (Catalina-lirio)

11/23/2011, 6:25 PM

I love Tobias. I'm not sure why. It just has all these wonderful qualities about it I can't quite name.

- humblebee +3

11/23/2011, 5:40 PM

I hope it's a better reference from Sweeney Todd than it is from HP!

I like Tobias. I'm not crazy about the possiblity of Toby or the "by" sound in the middle, so it never climbs very high up my list, but I still think it's a great name.

- Fleur (guest) +2

11/23/2011, 6:05 PM

I like Tobias, cuz I like Harry Potter, and its a somewhat obscure reference as opposed to Severus or Lucius, even though the character is horrid. And have u ever seen Sweeney Todd (2007)?

- humblebee +1

11/23/2011, 8:36 PM

No, I haven't seen it. It's the one with the barber and people baked into meat pies, right? If there's even a whiff of cannibalism about something, I pretty much can't bear to watch it. It's one thing I'm really squeamish about.

So is Tobias a good guy in Sweeney Todd or a bad guy?

- Fleur (guest)

11/24/2011, 4:58 AM

Tobias is... complicated. He's an assistant to MR.Todd, Unaware of his business. But, Mr. Todd ends up killing Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) who has acted like a surrogate mother to Tobias. So, Tobias kills Mr. Todd.

I guess he's a good character, but that's all based on perspective.

- abbasdaughter

11/23/2011, 5:08 PM

I quite like it actually... On my list, I have it as Mamoru Tobias.

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