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Metz

in New Jersey

There are 531 people with the last name "Metz" in New Jersey.

Ranking in New Jersey

Name	Rank
Metz	1,398

is 1,394th most common Ocasio
is 1,395th most common Rosales
is 1,396th most common Garofalo
is 1,397th most common Hayden
is 1,398th most common Metz
is 1,399th most common Morrissey
is 1,400th most common Ritchie
is 1,401st most common Rudolph
is 1,402nd most common Wojcik

Meaning & History

Metz

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.