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breda Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian: topographic name from medieval Latin braida ‘grassy meadow’, ‘flat grassland adjoining a settlement’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, such as the districts (now suburbs) of Genoa, Milan, Mantua, and Brescia called Breda or Brera.
  2. Dutch: habitational name from the city of this name in North Brabant.

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Distribution of breda Families in the US in 1920
Number of breda families
 6-10
 3-5		 1-2
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Threads: 15 - Messages: 126
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Joseph E Breda/Nellie Harrison-LA IL ArizonaGal411 2
Who is Breda Lake named after? in Natchitoches, LA friday 1
Looking for relatives mladytam 35
Norweigan Breda Jon Breda 1
Steven Mark Breda, Jr. RPartheymuller2005 4
Minnie Breda of N.Y., c1875 - 1904 BasketLady420 0
Breda name origins? Joe 13
Breda/Green Colleen 0
Breda Linda 19
Breda family tree- northern Italy pbreda1 5
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