Pembroke

Where Pembroke comes from

Pembroke hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    Debut at its peak, #921
    #921 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1930
    Pembroke J. Herring born
    American film editor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Pembroke J. Herring · American film editor, 1930–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.