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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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 dūn.
  • Americanized form of German Breden.

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