Entry № 8065 · English origin

Pemberton Pemberton — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PEM-ber-tuhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pem's town (John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "pem's town (john pemberton invented coca-cola)".

Pemberton is from the Old English place name in Lancashire — Pem's town. Dr. Pemberley — Mr. Pemberton, British Columbia — Canadian community. Pemberton Mill — historic Lawrence MA. John Henry Pemberton — modern American figure.

Pem's town. Dr.

The name in its native script.

Pemberton
Transliteration
Pemberton
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɛm.bər.tən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pemberton stands.

Pemberton does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Pembertons before her.

Real people
Dr. John Stith Pemberton
Invented Coca-Cola 1886.
1831 – 1888
In fiction
Pemberley
Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
1813

Names connected to Pemberton.

The number behind Pemberton.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pemberton reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.