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breeden Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Bredon in Worcestershire or from Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire, both of which are named from an unattested Celtic word brez ‘hill’ + the tautologous addition of Old English dun.
  2. Americanized form of German Breden.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of breeden Families in the US in 1920
Number of breeden families
 92-182
 31-91
 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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