Gottlob
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name composed of the elements god, got ‘god’ + lob ‘praise’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɔtloːp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gottlob is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- ESSpain
- PLPoland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a personal name composed of the elements god, got ‘god’ + lob ‘praise’. This was one of the German personal names that became popular in the 17th and 18th centuries with the rise of the Pietist movement.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- DEGermany
- ESSpain
- USUnited States
- PLPoland
- BRBrazil
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Gottlob is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Protestant coinage: ‘praise God’. Gotz g Reduced form cf GoTTERIED.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, synonym of zum Glück
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, in der Zeit des Pietismus (ly./iS. Jh.) neu gebildeter männl. Vorname mit wörtH- cher Bedeutung.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, from Gott 'God' + lob 'praise'.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
German: religious name, dating from the 17th century, composed of the elements Gott God + the verbal stem lob praise.
as a word
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)
- Johann Gottlob Leidenfrostb. 1715DEGerman physician
- Abraham Gottlob Wernerb. 1749DEGerman geologist (1749-1817)
- Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneiderb. 1750DEGerman classicist and naturalist
- Daniel Gottlob Türkb. 1750DEcomposer, organist, and music professor of the Classical Period (1750-1813)
- Gottlob Ernst Schulzeb. 1761DEGerman philosopher (1761-1833)
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlägerb. 1779DKDanish poet and playwright (1779–1850)
- Friedrich Wieckb. 1785DEnot in their usual nameGerman piano teacher, music critic and music educator (1785-1873)
- Christian Gottlob Barthb. 1799DEGerman Protestant pastor and children's writer (1799–1862)
- Gottlob Fregeb. 1848DEGerman philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
- Gottlob Bergerb. 1896DESS general (1896–1975)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 254 | #75,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 250 | #81,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 230 | #77,472 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 15 | #29,340 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #97,184 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #333,419 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #332,388 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #18,518 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #83,950 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gottlob mean, and where does it come from?
- from a personal name composed of the elements god, got ‘god’ + lob ‘praise’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gottlob?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɔtloːp/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Gottlob a male or female name?
- Gottlob is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gottlob have the most bearers?
- Gottlob is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gottlobThe 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, “Gottlob”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.