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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
 0
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