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Toby
Toby is a popular male name in many English speaking countries.The name is ultimately derived from Hebrew אלוהים הוא טוב Alohim hoa Tov and roughly translates as "The Lord is Good". The name is now often used in its own right, but originated as a contraction of Tobias...

is a masculine given name. It may also refer to:
  • Toby (TV series)
    Toby (TV series)
    Toby was a Canadian sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in the 1968-69 television season. The show starred Susan Petrie as Toby Mitchell, a teenage girl juggling her family life and her friendship with Quebec exchange student J. J. Roberge...

    , 1960s Canadian television series, featuring a female title character.
  • Toby (album)
    Toby (album)
    Toby is the seventh studio album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1974 on the Brunswick label.-History:...

    , a 1974 release by The Chi-Lites
    The Chi-Lites
    The Chi-Lites are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal quartet from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period not to come from Memphis or Philadelphia...

  • Save Toby
    Save Toby
    Save Toby was a humor website. The premise of the site was that the website's anonymous webmasters, would eat Toby, a pet rabbit, unless they received $50,000 in donations to care for it. The website also spawned a book, fully titled: Save Toby: Only YOU have the power to save Toby!- SaveToby.com...

    , humor website and book based around threatening to eat a rabbit named Toby
  • "Toby," a dialogue interlude from the Belle and Sebastian album Storytelling
  • Toby, slang term for a tramp
    Tramp
    A tramp is a long term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking or hiking all year round. In British English meanwhile a tramp simply refers to a homeless person, usually not a travelling one....

  • Toby, Cockney slang for Mug
    Mug
    A mug is a sturdily built type of cup often used for drinking hot beverages, such as coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Mugs, by definition, have handles and often hold a larger amount of fluid than other types of cup. Usually a mug holds approximately 12 fluid ounces of liquid; double a tea cup...

  • Toby Township, Pennsylvania
    Toby Township, Pennsylvania
    Toby Township is a township in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,166 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 29.1 square miles , of which, 28.9 square miles of it is land and...

    , a town in the United States
  • Toby Jug, a pottery jug in the image of a human being
  • Toby Toman, drummer of British rock bands such as Ludus and Primal Scream

Fictional characters

  • Toby the Tram Engine
    Toby the Tram Engine
    Toby the Tram Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic tram engine in The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry and his son, Christopher; he also appears in the spin-off television series Thomas and Friends...

    , from The Railway Series
  • Toby Flenderson
    Toby Flenderson
    Toby Wyatt Flenderson, M.S.W. born 1971 is a character from the US television series The Office. He is played by Paul Lieberstein. He is an original character and has no equivalent in the British version of the show, The Office.-Overview:...

     from The Office (U.S.)
  • Toby Hamee
    Toby Hamee
    Toby Hamee is a fictional character in the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate.Toby Hamee is a Hork-Bajir seer, the daughter of Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak. She is the first free Hork-Bajir born in the free Hork-Bajir colony...

    , from the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate
  • Toby Isaacs, a character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • Toby Ziegler
    Toby Ziegler
    Tobias Zachary 'Toby' Ziegler is played by Richard Schiff on the television serial drama The West Wing. For most of the series' duration he is White House Communications Director.-Creation and development:...

    , Communications Director played by Richard Schiff from 1999–2006 on the American television series, The West Wing
  • Uncle Toby, from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years....

    ,
    by Lawrence Sterne
  • Toby, partial bloodhound in the Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Sign of Four"
  • Toby, dog in traditional British Punch and Judy
    Punch and Judy
    Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular puppet show featuring the characters of Mr. Punch and his wife, Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the anarchic Punch and one other character...

     puppet shows
  • TOBY, Robot Satan; a comic strip by Corey Pandolph
  • Toby Waller was the slave name given to Kunta Kinte
    Kunta Kinte
    Kunta Kinte is the central character of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley, and of the television miniseries Roots, based on the book. Haley described his book as faction - a mixture of fact and fiction...

     in the popular Roots novel by Alex Haley, and the television adaptation therof
  • Toby, the name given to the invisible demonic entity in Paranormal Activity 3
    Paranormal Activity 3
    Paranormal Activity 3 is a 2011 American supernatural horror film. It is the third film of the Paranormal Activity series and serves as a prequel, set 18 years prior to the events of the first two films...

    . It can be safe to assume that this is the same exact entity that follows the haunted families throughout the movie series itself.
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