Breton Family

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About the Breton surname

The surname Breton has a primarily toponymic formation. Breton referred to a person from Brittany. This formation belongs to the broad group of surnames connected with a place or geographic feature. Families bearing the same surname may nevertheless come from different places when more than one locality produced a similar name.

Pronunciation: Bre-ton/bʁətɔ̃/

Most frequent given names among the Breton family

Men

  1. 1Joseph3,407
  2. 2Pierre1,849
  3. 3André1,199
  4. 4François1,156
  5. 5Jean1,077

Women

  1. 1Marie2,504
  2. 2Marguerite1,788
  3. 3Louise801
  4. 4Thérèse709
  5. 5Cécile624
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The Breton name in our genealogy archives

122,391occurrences in our collections
10collections containing this name
920 1,3661881 → 1901people enumerated
1651First mention of the name
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