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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various minor places, for example Brede in Sussex, named with Old English brǣdu ‘breadth’, ‘broad place’ (a derivative of brād ‘broad’).
  • Modern bearers of the American surname Breed are in many cases descended from Alan Breed, who came to Salem, MA, from England in 1629, and subsequently settled at Saugus, MA.

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