Metcalf Family History
Metcalf Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Metcalf
Name Distribution of Metcalf Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Metcalf families
 138 - 273  47 - 137 |
 1 - 46  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Metcalf families
|
802 - 1,601 268 - 801 |
1 - 267 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Metcalf families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Metcalf Family Origin
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Metcalf Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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