Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of the numerous places called Breitenbach or Breidenbach, meaning ‘broad stream’, for example in Westphalia, Rhineland, and Hesse. Compare Breitbach.
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