Toby is a ♀ girl name and a ♂ boy name. That makes Toby one of the gender-neutral unisex names.
Toby is a short variant of the name Tobias, which is a Greek form of the Hebrew “Tuvijah(u)”. It is also common as a girl’s name (especially in the 1930s and 40s).
Toby means “Yahweh is good” (from Hebrew “tov” = good + “Yahweh” = referring to the Hebrew God).
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