You can even run the motor directly from the 5V power supply for short durations. It may be very handy to have some peak power and torque in some applications. But with such an over voltage the motor heats up quickly, and it releases it's magic smoke when it gets too hot.
I have had a motor designed for 2 NiCd cells run on a 16V power supply for about 10 years before it finally wore out. It wore out because the copper of the commutator was completely worn away. In those 10 years, it controlled some roller blinds and it ran for around 20seconds twice a day. It was controlled by PWM and PiD, and it also had some extra lines of software to detect fault conditions (overcurrent, stalling motor, too long runtime) The PWM output was also limited to around 12%. If it ever got over that, the motor controller was put in a fault condition.
It all worked quite well. The main problem was that the motor itself was underpowered from the beginning, but I only noticed that after I built the complete system. And when it was built, I thought, "well, I've built it now, let's see how long it will last". And that turned out to be (a bit over) 10 years.
And for motors, I prefer a low PWM frequency (400Hz) above a higher PWM frequency. At a low PWM frequency, the hum caused by the PWM mostly drowns in the other motor noises (such as from the gearbox) while at higher PWM frequency the whining of the PWM is annoying.