Toby or Tobias

[JessieEssex]

Am only 5w pg with DC2 but getting excited thinking about names. Really like Toby for a boy - but do you think of this as a nickname / shortening of Tobias? I love Toby but Tobias sounds really Germanic (not that it's a bad thing, but we're not German!)
Thoughts?

i love Tobias

Tobias with Toby for short. Toby too nicknamey on its own.

Tobias is a name of Hebrew origin used in the Old Testament. I don't think of it as German.

Mine is just Toby, addressed as Toby, Tobe or Tobes.

I have a 'Toby' too. just Toby not Tobias. I love it. despite being three in same primary school. but u could get that with any name.

love the name toby, wouldnt use tobias but i dont dislike it, just think toby is enough of a name.

My DS2 is just Toby. I don't like the longer names, and Toby's long been a stand alone name.

Thanks all - am in two minds - if it's a boy, we would just refer to him as Toby and not Tobias and I agree that Toby is a name in it's own right, but I still feel like we could use the longer name on the birth certificate and Toby for all other times.
Oh well, 35 weeks to decide!
Thanks

As I posted earlier, mine is just Toby - he has a long middle name partly to counteract the short first name, but then you never actually use it.

Tobias is much nicer.

I have a Toby (and i LOVE the name) ...but i do wish i had called him Tobias on the BC

If you officially called him Tobias but then used Toby would that be the best of both? You/he can then have the choice when he's older as to preference and may vary between the 2. Love both names

Tobias is lovely. And gives you the best of both worlds!

I have a Toby too, which I love (despite most people here in Ireland thinking it's a dog's name!). Don't like Tobias though.

Toby. But then I'm biased as I chose Toby rather than Tobias for ds2

I have a Tobias, but he is known to most of the world as Toby and to me as Tobes...

I think it is nice for him to have the choice of using his full name or shortened name when he gets older.

I love both but Tobias just beats Toby for me.

Toby... Love Toby. I initially wanted to call DS Toby but DH hated it.

I have a Toby, I never thought about having the longer Tobias. GToby has been a stand alone name for a long time - thinking about Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare.

And yes, he's more often Tobes or Tobe :D

(only 2 in his very large Junior school)

My nephew is a Toby but short for Tobijah which is another option as your not sure on Tobias.

Tobias reminds us too much of Tobias Funke from arrested development, do I found Tobyn as an acceptable long name for Toby.

I like Toby.

Mine is a Tobias, also known as Toby