Breit Family History
Breit Name Meaning
German:: nickname from Middle High German breit ‘broad fat’ also ‘famous known far and wide’. topographic name for a farmer of a field of a certain width of the same etymology as 1 above or a habitational name from Breidt in Rhineland-Palatinate or Breidt in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022