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breit Name Meaning and History

German: nickname for a stout or fat person, from Middle High German breit ‘broad’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the breit family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of breit Families in the US in 1920
Number of breit families
 12-21
 5-11
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 12 - Messages: 27
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Breit-NW Missouri late 1800's smartelliott1 1
Rose Breit MYNA21 6
John Breit, Elise Eisner in Brooklyn DawnB226 0
Breit[s] from Bromberg. gensearch2 2
Teresa Breit/Wiscosnsin (and others) snokes_1 5
Edward Breit LindaTemple72 0
Robert "Bob" Breit Obit (1935-2004) Linda Walden Garrett 0
Frederick Breit Janice_Rosebro 1
Katharina Breit -- Wisconsin? annemunson1 0
BREIT'S IN NEW YORK jandon 0
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