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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Breiting, a habitational name from either of two places called Breitungen, on the Werra river and in the Harz Mountains.
  • German : in southwestern Germany, a metronymic from Breide, a short form of the female personal name Brigida.

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