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The breitling Surname

breitling Name Meaning and History

  1. from the name of a fish, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish in some way.
  2. habitational name for someone who lived at the widening of the Warnow river near Rostock which is so named, from breit ‘broad’ + the suffix -ling denoting affiliation.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of breitling Families in the US in 1920
Number of breitling families
 6-10
 3-5
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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