Pembroke
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pembroke has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1887. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1887, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Pembroke, 1887
1 in 49,500
Pembroke over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Pembroke?
Pembroke had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1887, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1887
- 1 in 49,500
- 5 of 247,386 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 20,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1887
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 34,296 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pembroke sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1887 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 34,296 children born in 1887 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pembroke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pembrokes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pembroke was born before 1887 — so the typical Pembroke is around 138 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1880s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1880s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Pembroke rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1887 (5)
- Years since peak
- 138
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Pembroke by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Pembroke
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pembroke
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.