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Metz

in North Carolina

There are 368 people with the last name "Metz" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Metz 2,759
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  1. is 2,755th most common Salas
  2. is 2,756th most common Ackerman
  3. is 2,757th most common Krueger
  4. is 2,758th most common Marino
  5. is 2,759th most common Metz
  6. is 2,760th most common Motsinger
  7. is 2,761st most common Scronce
  8. is 2,762nd most common Shores
  9. is 2,763rd most common Skidmore

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Michael, Mary, Richard, Robert, William, Barbara, Charles, Daniel, Gregory, Harry

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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