Breckenridge Family History
Breckenridge Name Meaning
Scottish (Ayrshire and Lanarkshire): from Middle English braken ‘bracken fern’ + rigge ‘ridge’ (Old Norse brakni + hryggr). The name may be topographic for someone who lived ‘(by the) bracken-covered ridge’ or a habitational name from Brackenridge in Lanarkshire or possibly from any of various minor places so named in Cumberland and North Yorkshire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022