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Metz

in Indiana

There are 573 people with the last name "Metz" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

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Metz 1,125
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  1. is 1,121st most common Barlow
  2. is 1,122nd most common Barron
  3. is 1,123rd most common Clarke
  4. is 1,124th most common Emerson
  5. is 1,125th most common Metz
  6. is 1,126th most common Purvis
  7. is 1,127th most common Rainey
  8. is 1,128th most common Rees
  9. is 1,129th most common Staley

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

James, Robert, Thomas, William, John, Michael, Richard, David, Kenneth, Barbara

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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