Metz Family History
Metz Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Metz Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Metz families
 255 - 508  86 - 254 |
 1 - 85  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Metz families
|
18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Metz families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Metz Family Origin
Metz Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Metz
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Metz Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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