Pembleton: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Pembleton is a familiar spelling of the English name Pemberton.

What is the meaning of Pembleton?

Read literally, Pembleton points to “Farmstead by the barley hill”. The 2010 census count for Pembleton in the United States was 522, good for rank 41,657. It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country.

Is Pembleton the same name as Pemberton?

Before spelling was fixed, Pemberton was also written Pembleton.

Does every Pembleton family have a crest?

Arms linked to Pemberton and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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