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The metz Surname

metz Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from a short form of the female personal name Mechthild, composed of Germanic maht ‘might’, ‘strength’ + hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.
  2. 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.
  3. German: from Mätz, a short form of the personal name Matthias (see Matthew).
  4. 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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of metz Families in the US in 1920
Number of metz families
 255-508
 86-254		 1-85
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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