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bree Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (Counties Sligo and Mayo): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Breaghaigh ‘descendant of Breagha’, a byname meaning ‘hill dweller’, from brí ‘hill’, ‘height’, genitive breagh.
  2. Dutch: nickname for a well-built man, from Middle Dutch breet ‘broad’.
  3. Jewish: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bree name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bree family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bree Families in the US in 1920
Number of bree families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 27 - Messages: 48
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Bree family in Leicester around 1840-1900 Breebags1 1
Bree-Treddinick- -Cornwall to USA glbb410 1
German Bree Surname of Dutch Origin? junblaa 0
Bree - Limbrick, Germany lorraine1387 0
Bree-----channel Islands to New Zealand Bree 1
Bree family of Northampton or Leicester scottupton111 0
Breh (Preh, Bree, Pree, Prae, Proh ...) Wolfgang Breh 0
Bree Carey 0
Mary BREE CAVENEY d Jun 19,1908 Scranton, PA WaltonSullivan44 0
Bree Nancy 0
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