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The PEMBERTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,842 3065 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 2,427 2515 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +8415 -550 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 837 1950 0.005 51
United Kingdom 5,302 1178 0.012 115
Top States for PEMBERTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 801 2963 0.004 38
Missouri 680 1051 0.012 122
Florida 619 3395 0.004 39
Ohio 617 2315 0.005 54
California 612 4810 0.002 18
Top States for PEMBERTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 680 1051 0.012 122
Tennessee 487 1807 0.009 86
Indiana 511 1504 0.008 84
Oklahoma 274 1783 0.008 79
Arkansas 204 1814 0.008 76

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PEMBERTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PEMBERTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PEMBERTON in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PEMBERTON by picking someone at random in Missouri than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PEMBERTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PEMBERTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PEMBERTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PEMBERTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 199 1.84
White (Hispanic) 199 1.84
Mixed Race 184 1.7
Asian/Pacific 25 0.23
White (Caucasian) 8,708 80.32
Black/African American 1,525 14.07

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PEMBERTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PEMBERTON in historical publications

PEMBERTON. A chapelry in Lancashire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PEMBERTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEMBERTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PEMBERTON

The following words are slight variants of PEMBERTON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.