The surname Pember
An English place surname, carried by 595 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P516
Origin
English origin
Perhaps a habitational surname from a place called Pamber, in Hampshire. The placename is from Old English penn (“fold, enclosure”) + beorg (“mountain, hill”).
Pember is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 595 people named Pember in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 518,900 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 580.
Who is named Pember
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Pember identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Pember has the Soundex code P516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P516.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Pember come from?
- Perhaps a habitational surname from a place called Pamber, in Hampshire. The placename is from Old English penn (“fold, enclosure”) + beorg (“mountain, hill”).
- How common is the surname Pember?
- 595 people in the United States had the surname Pember in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 518,900 Americans. It ranked 37,442nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pember?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Pember identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Pember?
- Pember is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Pember getting more or less common?
- More common. 580 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 595 in 2010, up 2.6%.