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Gottlieb

Boys' name

God

Gottlieb has been given to 320 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Gottlieb, 1933

1 in 333,000

Gottlieb over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gottlieb: meaning, origin, and history

God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gottlieb means

Gottlieb means “God”, associated with got.

Origin, language, and formation

Gottlieb is used in German.

Gottlieb comes through Old High German got and Old High German leiba.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 320 boys were recorded with the name Gottlieb between 1880 and 1933. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1915; its best national rank was #695 in 1890.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gottlieb?

Gottlieb had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1933, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1933
1 in 333,000
6 of 1,999,415 births
Among boys only
1 in 165,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1933
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
230,983 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gottlieb sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1933 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 230,983 children born in 1933 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gottlieb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gottliebs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gottlieb was born before 1915 — so the typical Gottlieb is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Gottlieb rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (34)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#695
1890

Where Gottlieb is used

Across 1910–2025, Gottlieb was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 182,627 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 14,286
  2. 2Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gottlieb has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gottlieb around the world

Where Gottlieb ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–1913
    #769
    in 1913

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gottlieb by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#695
1890
Peak year
1915
34 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1933
All-time count
320
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gottlieb

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GottfriedGothamGotenGottiKaliebGottfredCaliebGottlob

Sibling names for Gottlieb

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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