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Metz

in Illinois

There are 861 people with the last name "Metz" in Illinois.

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Metz 1,225
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  1. is 1,221st most common Huston
  2. is 1,222nd most common Mehta
  3. is 1,223rd most common Regan
  4. is 1,224th most common Burger
  5. is 1,225th most common Metz
  6. is 1,226th most common Starks
  7. is 1,227th most common Clemons
  8. is 1,228th most common Dillard
  9. is 1,229th most common Behrens

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Michael, Richard, James, Donald, William, John, Daniel, Mary, Robert, Scott

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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