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Pemberton (surname)

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

Pemberton is an English, Anglo Saxon 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 .

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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  1. ^ "Pemberton Name Meaning & Pemberton Family History". www.ancestry.com.