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Metz

in Alaska

There are 35 people with the last name "Metz" in Alaska.

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Metz 2,193
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  1. is 2,189th most common Lilly
  2. is 2,190th most common Maillelle
  3. is 2,191st most common Marley
  4. is 2,192nd most common Mcfadden
  5. is 2,193rd most common Metz
  6. is 2,194th most common Montoya
  7. is 2,195th most common Moreland
  8. is 2,196th most common Moulton
  9. is 2,197th most common Muir

Similar Names and Nicknames

Metzger, Metzler, Matz, Metzgar, Metzner, Motz, Matzke, Metzinger, Mutz, Metzer

Most Common First Names for Metz

Brenda, Robert, Dominic, James, Jason, Michele, Alice, Andrew, Augusta

Meaning & History

German: from a short form of the female personal name Mechthild, composed of Germanic maht ‘might’, ‘strength’ + hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Metz in Lorraine, which took its name from a Gaulish tribe, the Mediomatrici; in the name of the place this became abbreviated to Mettis, hence the modern name.

German: from Mätz, a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew).

North German: metonymic occupational name for a cutler, from Middle Low German messet, metset ‘knife’, ‘dagger’ or Middle High German metz(e) ‘knife’. Compare Messer 1. This name is also established in Poland.

FOREBEARS Christian Metz, the founder of the Amana colonies in IA, was born in Neuwied, Prussia, in 1794. His group arrived in NY in 1842 and proceeded to the Midwest in 1855, where they were able to establish an experimental life style that was more successful than most other Utopian communal religious settlements of the time.

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