Bree Family History
Bree Name Meaning
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.Dutch: nickname for a well-built man, from
Middle Dutch breet ‘broad’.Jewish: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bree Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bree families
 20 - 38  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bree families
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50 - 98 17 - 49 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bree families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bree Family Origin
Bree Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bree
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Bree Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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