Tobe

Family name origins & meanings

• German : habitational name from a place in Thuringia called Toba.
• Frisian and Dutch : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name (see Tabbert 2), or from a derivative of the Biblical name Tobias.
• Japanese : variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘door’ or ‘earth’ for the first character and ‘department’ or ‘side’ for the second. None are common in Japan.