Pemberton

Pemberton is the 3,241st most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,866 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,866
Rank: 3,241st
How common: 1 in 27,500
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

From xcb/owl pen (“head, summit”) + Old English bere (“barley”) + Old English tūn (“village, town”). Or else, the second element may be owl byr (“short”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pemberton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.4%
Black, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Pemberton

John Pemberton (1831–1888)American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola
Patrick Pemberton (born 1982)Costa Rican footballer
Steve Pemberton (born 1967)British actor and comedian
John C. Pemberton (1814–1881)Confederate Army officer
Daniel Pemberton (born 1977)English film and TV composer
Amy Pemberton (born 1988)British actress

People named Pemberton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.