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gottlieb Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): 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.
  2. German: from the personal name Goteleib, based on Old High German god, got ‘god’ + leiba ‘offspring’, ‘son’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The gottlieb name in History

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Distribution of gottlieb Families in the US in 1920
Number of gottlieb families
 251-499
 84-250		 1-83
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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