Breda

Family name origins & meanings

• Italian : topographic name from medieval Latin braida ‘grassy meadow’, ‘flat grassland adjoining a settlement’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, such as the districts (now suburbs) of Genoa, Milan, Mantua, and Brescia called Breda or Brera.
• Dutch : habitational name from the city of this name in North Brabant.