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Metz

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There are 320 people with the last name "Metz" in Colorado.

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Metz 1,488
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  1. is 1,484th most common Bland
  2. is 1,485th most common Butcher
  3. is 1,486th most common Garland
  4. is 1,487th most common Jaquez
  5. is 1,488th most common Metz
  6. is 1,489th most common Rollins
  7. is 1,490th most common Saucedo
  8. is 1,491st most common Shearer
  9. is 1,492nd most common Sheehan

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Robert, Andrew, James, Jeffrey, John, Mary, William, Brandon, Henry, Jeff

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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