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Metzger : South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a butcher from Middle High German metziger metzjer German Metzger (probably deriving from Old French macecrier ‘butcher’). Metzgar : Variant under Slavic influence of German Metzger . Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022