Gottlieb Family History
Gottlieb Name Meaning
German Danish 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. German: from the personal name Goteleib based on Old High German god got ‘god’ + leiba ‘offspring son’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022