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Metz

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There are 93 people with the last name "Metz" in Idaho.

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Metz 1,747
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  1. is 1,743rd most common Henrie
  2. is 1,744th most common Hook
  3. is 1,745th most common Kinzer
  4. is 1,746th most common Lyle
  5. is 1,747th most common Metz
  6. is 1,748th most common Paz
  7. is 1,749th most common Pryor
  8. is 1,750th most common Sabala
  9. is 1,751st most common Seubert

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Richard, Roxann, Anne, Dick, Gary, Jason, Jay, Michelle, Pamela, Randy

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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