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Metz

in New Hampshire

There are 44 people with the last name "Metz" in New Hampshire.

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Metz 3,557
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  1. is 3,553rd most common Mccallum
  2. is 3,554th most common Mcquaid
  3. is 3,555th most common Melo
  4. is 3,556th most common Mendes
  5. is 3,557th most common Metz
  6. is 3,558th most common Meunier
  7. is 3,559th most common Moseley
  8. is 3,560th most common Mousseau
  9. is 3,561st most common Nightingale

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Amy, Joseph, Jon, Karla, Kathleen, Regina, Steven, Ann, Carl

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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