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breckenridge Name Meaning and History

Scottish, northern Irish, and English: habitational name from Brackenrig in Lanarkshire, so named with northern Middle English braken ‘bracken’ (Old Norse brækni) + rigg ‘ridge’ (Old Norse hryggr), or from a similarly named place in northern England.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of breckenridge Families in the US in 1920
Number of breckenridge families
 40-78
 14-39		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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