# Gottlob (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gottlob/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 5 | 4,036 |

## People named Gottlob

- Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (1749-1817)
- Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, German classicist and naturalist
- Christian Gottlob Heyne, German classical philologist (1729-1812)
- Daniel Gottlob Türk, composer, organist, and music professor of the Classical Period (1750-1813)
- Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi, German economist
- Gottlob Frick, German opera singer (1906–1994)
- Gottlob Walz, diver (1881–1943)
- Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, German botanist (1763-1832)
- Karl Gottlob Zumpt, German classical philologist (1792–1849)
- Adam Gottlob Schirach
- Johann Gottlob Harrer, German composer
- Gottlob Honold, German engineer (1876–1923)

## 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.