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metcalf Name Meaning and History

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’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of metcalf Families in the US in 1920
Number of metcalf families
 138-273
 47-137		 1-46
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