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Metz

in Rhode Island

There are 39 people with the last name "Metz" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Metz 3,601
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  1. is 3,597th most common Lind
  2. is 3,598th most common Mancieri
  3. is 3,599th most common Marr
  4. is 3,600th most common Marra
  5. is 3,601st most common Metz
  6. is 3,602nd most common Migneault
  7. is 3,603rd most common Morgera
  8. is 3,604th most common Moy
  9. is 3,605th most common Munson

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Barbara, Terry, Christine, Danny, Gary, Jay, Rudi, Andrea, Anita, Colin

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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