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Metz

in Louisiana

There are 189 people with the last name "Metz" in Louisiana.

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Metz 2,558
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  1. is 2,554th most common France
  2. is 2,555th most common Gervais
  3. is 2,556th most common Laprairie
  4. is 2,557th most common Mcrae
  5. is 2,558th most common Metz
  6. is 2,559th most common Quirk
  7. is 2,560th most common Sheffield
  8. is 2,561st most common Spinks
  9. is 2,562nd most common Swift

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Cynthia, Gary, James, Thomas, Candace, Daisy, John, Julie, Randy, Robert

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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