# Gottlieb (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gottlieb/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 320 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 320 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 15 | 1,638 |
| 1915 | 34 | 1,110 |
| 1916 | 12 | 2,317 |
| 1917 | 23 | 1,501 |
| 1918 | 18 | 1,855 |
| 1919 | 14 | 2,192 |
| 1920 | 20 | 1,783 |
| 1921 | 7 | 3,664 |
| 1922 | 12 | 2,549 |
| 1923 | 12 | 2,505 |
| 1924 | 7 | 3,638 |
| 1926 | 7 | 3,521 |
| 1927 | 5 | 4,425 |
| 1930 | 7 | 3,416 |
| 1933 | 6 | 3,429 |

## People named Gottlieb

- Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (1834–1900)
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Baltic German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer (1778–1852)
- Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Austrian writer (1795–1858)
- Gottlieb Haberlandt, Austrian botanist (1854-1945)
- Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, German botanist (1714–1786)
- Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, German botanist (1798–1875)
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner, Anglo-Hungarian orientalist
- Gottlieb von Jagow, German diplomat (1863–1935)
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German musician
- Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, German classical philologist and archaeologist (1784-1868)
- Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr, German naturalist
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff, German botanist, educationist and university teacher (1797-1854)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.