Breed Family History
Breed Name Meaning
English (Bedfordshire): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) broad place’ typically a cultivated strip of land in an area of common land from Middle English brede (Old English brǣdu ‘breadth’) or a habitational name from any of various minor places so named for example Brede in Sussex named from the same word with the sense ‘broad valley’. Dutch: nickname for a well-built man from breed ‘broad’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022