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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BREED

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(origin: Dutch.) From Breed, broad, large. Brede, local, a town in Sussex, England, and in the Danish, signifies brim, margin; sea-side, shore, river-side.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: habitational name from any of various minor places, for example Brede in Sussex, named with Old English br?du ‘breadth’, ‘broad place’ (a derivative of brad ‘broad’).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)