Pemberton

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Pemberton is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In St. Kitts & Nevis it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘person from Pemberton’, Greater Manchester, from a place-name meaning ‘barley farm on the hill’.

rarermore common
  • KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 90◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 18K
  • AUAustralia1 in 19K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈12K ●

across 15 countries

Sources
347 ●

126K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 90 ◐

St. Kitts & Nevis

Meaning & origin●

‘person from Pemberton’, Greater Manchester, from a place-name meaning ‘barley farm on the hill’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Pemberton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—12,83911K rec.—listedPemberton156
US United States—11,272101K rec.1 in 30K11KPemberton347
AU Australia—4,5434.3K rec.—1Pemberton125
CA Canada—2,5392.5K rec.——Pemberton69
IT Italy—661674 rec.——Pemberton9
KN St. Kitts & Nevis#4598△224 rec.1 in 90742Pemberton23
DE Germany—506502 rec.——Pemberton35
NZ New Zealand—383298 rec.——Pemberton43
SG Singapore—345364 rec.——Pemberton6
JM Jamaica#619271280 rec.——Pemberton1
ID Indonesia—124125 rec.——Pemberton5
CR Costa Rica—570 rec.1 in 89K57—1

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Languages●

  • English128K85%
  • Spanish5.1K3%
  • 3.1K2%
  • Arabic2.1K1%
  • German1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English127,55685%
Spanish5,1343%
3,0572%
Arabic2,0571%
German1,2231%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pemberton is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6.8K records spelled Pemberton4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pembertoñ

  • Arabic surname2.3K records spelled Pemberton4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Egypt, Spain

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written פמברטון

  • Russian surname166 records spelled Pemberton4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Canada

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пембертон

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Pemberton is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from Pemberton, Lancashire; first attested Alan, Hugh de Pemberton 1212 Fees (Lancashire)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Greater Manchester, so called from the Brit, element penn hill, head + OE bere barley + tiin enclosure, settlement (see Barton).

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000John C. Pemberton, b. 1814John Pemberton, b. 1831Sophie Pemberton, b. 1869Liz Mitchell, b. 1952Steve Pemberton, b. 1967Rudy Pemberton, b. 1969Daniel Pemberton, b. 1977Johnny Pemberton, b. 1981Patrick Pemberton, b. 1982Amy Pemberton, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Pemberton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,207
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,241
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200011K#3,065
KN St. Kitts & NevisThe page presents a detailed list of surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, focusing on their frequency and cultural signifi2026742#5
KN St. Kitts & NevisThe page provides a list of the 50 most common surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, published by Apellidos del mundo.2025734#5
KN St. Kitts & NevisThis page presents a list of common surnames in St. Kitts and Nevis, highlighting their cultural and historical signific2024734#5
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 20262026598#6
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—57#2,014
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—52#43,742
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—52#43,157
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025202544#183
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—44#30,583

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 45 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pemberton?
We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Pemberton (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Pemberton have the most bearers?
Pemberton is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled pemberton.
Where is Pemberton most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pemberton is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 90 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Pemberton compared with other names?
In St. Kitts & Nevis, Pemberton is the 4th most common surname of 333 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Pemberton mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘person from Pemberton’, Greater Manchester, from a place-name meaning ‘barley farm on the hill’
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pemberton” — the 4th most common surname in St. Kitts & Nevis. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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