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.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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