Gottlieb
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From the German personal name Gottlieb, literally 'god-love'; also a Jewish name from Yiddish elements or as a translation of Greek Theophilos
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɑtˌɫib/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gottlieb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 49K
- USUnited States1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
6,509 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the German personal name Gottlieb, literally 'god-love'; also a Jewish name from Yiddish elements or as a translation of Greek Theophilos.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gottlieb is read(measured from records)
Gottlieb is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English74%
From the German personal name Gottlieb, literally 'god-love'; also a Jewish name from Yiddish elements or as a translation of Greek Theophilos.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German7.4%
Patro- oder Metronym aus Vollformen von Rufnamen mit Zweitglied ahd. liob/liof 'lieb, teuer' oder ahd. leiba/altsächs. leva 'Erbe, Nachlass, Sohn, Tochter'; 581 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
in der Zeit des Pietismus (17./18.JI1.) aufgekommener männl. Vom., Übersetzung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gottlieb counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,509 | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Gottlieb | 384 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Gottlieb | 95 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Gottlieb | 89 |
| CA Canada | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Gottlieb | 99 |
| DK Denmark | 748 | 1 in 7.8K | 748 | — | 5 |
| IL Israel | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gottlieb | 45 |
| AT Austria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 10 | Gottlieb | 44 |
| IS Iceland | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 2 | — | 2 |
6,509 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gottlieb is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the personal name Gottlieb. As a German personal name this is for the most part a translation of Greek Theophilos (‘one who loves God’) that became very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries with the rise of the Pietist movement. Among German Jews, it existed, independently from German Christians, since the Middle Ages.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the personal name Goteleib, based on Old High German god, got ‘god’ -i- leiba ‘offspring’, ‘son’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Protestant coinage: ‘love God’; translation of Greek Theophilos; Late Latin equivalent Amadeus.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maurycy Gottliebb. 1856PLPolish painter and student of Jan Matejko (1856-1879)
- Edward Gottliebb. 1898USUkrainian-American basketball coach and executive (1898–1979)
- Linda Gottliebb. 1901USAmerican film producer
- Adolph Gottliebb. 1903USAmerican artist (1903-1974)
- Jane Wintonb. 1905USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1905–1959)
- William P. Gottliebb. 1917USAmerican photographer (1917–2006)
- Joey Bishopb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican entertainer (1918–2007)
- Robert Gottliebb. 1931USAmerican editor of books and magazines (1931–2023)
- Carl Gottliebb. 1938USAmerican screenwriter, actor, comedian and executive
- Lauren Gottliebb. 1988USAmerican dancer and actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.5K | #4,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.5K | #5,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.3K | #5,357 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 748 | #542 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gottlieb mean, and where does it come from?
- From the German personal name Gottlieb, literally 'god-love'; also a Jewish name from Yiddish elements or as a translation of Greek Theophilos. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gottlieb?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑtˌɫib/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gottlieb have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Gottlieb, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gottlieb.
- Where is Gottlieb most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gottlieb is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gottlieb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,509 people named Gottlieb in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gottliebThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gottlieb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.