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Meaning & History
English translation of German Gottlieb, which in turn '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' (second edition of Dictionary of American Family Names, 2022). This was borne by Godlove Stein Orth (1817-1882), an American politician of German ancestry.