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Throughout the world, Gotlieb (Gotlieb , Готлиб , גוטליב ) is a rare masculine first name. The given name Gotlieb is characteristic of Namibia, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Kazakhstan, and Lithuania, where it is a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Kazakhstan, Namibia, and Russia. More prevalently, Gotlieb is the last name as well as the forename.
Gotlieb is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Gottlieb Theodor Pilz , the fictional character; Gottlieb Hagauer , the character from Musil's The Man Without Qualities and Gottlieb Griese , the fictional character from Lindenstraße.