Bree Family History
Bree Name Meaning
Cornish: from bre ‘hill’ (Brittonic brigā). The name may be topographic for someone who lived by a hill or a habitational name from a place so named such as Brea in Illogan (Cornwall). Irish (Sligo): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Breaghaigh ‘descendant of Breagha’ a byname meaning ‘hill dweller’ from brí ‘hill height’ genitive breagh. Dutch: nickname for a well-built man from breed ‘broad’. Compare Debree . French (mainly northern; Brée): from the feminine form of Bré a nickname for a short man from Old French brief ‘short’. American shortened and altered form of an unidentified Jewish Ashkenazic surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022