Toba

Last updated January 09, 2026

Toba may refer to:

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Toba people, indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco in South America
Toba Batak people, a sub-ethnic group of Batak people from North Sumatra, Indonesia
Tuoba (拓拔), an early name for a clan of the Xianbei people in ancient China
Toba Sōjō (1053–1140), Japanese astronomer and artist-monk
Emperor Toba, emperor of Japan
Toba Spitzer, lesbian rabbi in Arizona, USA
Andreas Toba (born 1990), German gymnast
Mika Toba (born 1961), Japanese katazome dye artist
Toshimasa Toba (born 1975), Japanese footballer
Georgian Tobă (born 1989), Romanian footballer
Petre Tobă (born 1964), Romanian politician

Toba, an area in Northern Sumatra that is now included in the Toba Samosir Regency
- Lake Toba, a lake in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and site of the volcanic Toba eruption 75,000 years ago
- Toba catastrophe theory, according to which modern human evolution was affected by the Toba eruption
Toba, Mie, a city in Mie prefecture, Japan
Toba (Nova Crnja), a village near Nova Crnja, Serbia
Toba, Tibet
Toba, Jhelum, a village in Pakistan
Toba Tek Singh, a district city in Punjab, Pakistan
La Toba, central Spain

Crataegus × mordenensis 'Toba', cultivar of the Morden Hawthorn
Japanese gunboat Toba of the 1930s–40s
Month of Tobi, or Touba, the fifth month of the Coptic calendar
Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), a major black vaudeville circuit
Tobă, a traditional Romanian sausage
Torsion-Bar Antenna (TOBA), a proposed gravitational wave detector
Istighfar, a form of repentance sometimes invoked by the word "Toba"
Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA), annually reviews/establishes Grading for Thoroughbred horse races in North America