Pemberton (surname)

Pemberton is an English surname first found in Pemberton, Greater Manchester, a residential area of Wigan, historically a part of Lancashire. It is common in the United Kingdom, and in places with an English diaspora such as Australia and the United States .

Pemberton
John Pemberton (1831–1888), of Georgia, the inventor in 1886 of the drink Coca-Cola soda pop.
Origin
Region of originPemberton, old Lancashire, England
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Variant form(s)numerous

Etymologically, it consists of the elements Pen, Brythonic for hill or head, ber Anglo-Saxon for barley, and ton Anglo-Saxon for an enclosure or field; thus "Barley field on the hill".[1]

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