as a Last Name
- 26,501
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Metcalf
Meaning & Origins
English (Yorkshire): of uncertain origin, probably from Middle English metecalf ‘food calf’, i.e. a calf being fattened up for eating at the end of the summer. It is thus either an occupational name for a herdsman or slaughterer, or a nickname for a sleek and plump individual, from the same word in a transferred sense. The variants in med- appear early, and suggest that the first element was associated by folk etymology with Middle English mead ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.
| 1,354th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 26,501
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Montana
- has the most people named Metcalf per capita
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