Tobin?

[JojoMags]

Still going round in circles with boys names but think I love this one (so be kind but honest): Tobin George, nn Toby. What do you think? (DH hates Tobias !)

I know a Tobin (he is 2) and have never associated it with the murder Peter Tobin. It is a very unusual name in the UK as I think it is American. If you like it go for it.

Never heard of Peter Tobin. To me it's just a surname, quite a common one too here in Ireland.

Toby Tobin the little know celebrity chef, anyone?

Why not just call him Toby, much nicer and more 'normal' I think.

I thought of the serial killer too and with o[peration anagram ongoing no doubt he will reappear in the news again too.

What's wrong with just Toby?

Would Corbin fit the bill? Tiernan?

Even without the murderer association, it's Toe and Bin..

Have never heard of Peter Tobin. But Tobin is surely a surname, not a first name? Colm Tobin (with the accent I can't find on my keyboard) is what springs to mind.

If you like Toby, then what's wrong with Toby? It's a perfectly viable name in its own right and no need to go with Tobias. (makes me think of angels, and very large fish! )

It's Colm Toibin, isn't it? Not Tobin. Oh ignore me.

Sounds like a surname.

Tobias is lovely.

Torben?

This unusual and interesting name is of French (Norman) origin and is a locational name from a place called St. Aubin or St. Auban in Normandy. St. Aubyn was introduced into England after the Conquest of 1066, and it is known that the famous West Country family of that name are descended from John St. Aubyn (see below) or Paracombe Devon, who married Joan Popham, of Alfoxton, Devon in 1439. This surname also came to Ireland in the Wake of the 1170 Norman Invasion and by 1200 many namebearers had settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, where the name was gaelicized to Toibin. James Tobin, alias St. Aubyn a descendant of "Strongbow" circa 1100, became Lord of Cumsey circa 1437. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John St. Aubyn, which was dated circa 1425, Paracombe, Devon, during the reign of King Henry VI, "The Founder of Eton", 1422 - 1461. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.