Metro Family History
Metro Name Meaning
Americanized form of Rusyn (mainly from Slovakia) Albanian or southern Italian Mitro 1 and also a shortened and altered form of Mitrohlka itself an altered form of Rusyn Mytrovka (also transliterated Mitrovka) a derivative of the personal name Mytro Mitro. American shortened and altered form of Greek Mitros and its derivatives (see Mitro ) or a shortened form of the patronymic Metropoulos . French: perhaps an altered form of Metrau or Métreau derivatives of Maître (see Maitre ). Spanish: from metro ‘metre measure rule’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022