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Metz

in South Carolina

There are 349 people with the last name "Metz" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Metz 1,570
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  1. is 1,566th most common Stout
  2. is 1,567th most common Boyles
  3. is 1,568th most common Bramlett
  4. is 1,569th most common Bull
  5. is 1,570th most common Metz
  6. is 1,571st most common Grady
  7. is 1,572nd most common Keenan
  8. is 1,573rd most common Pilgrim
  9. is 1,574th most common Crumpton

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Metz

Robert, James, Michael, Brenda, William, David, Fred, Vicki, John, Joseph

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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