Posey
#3,440 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Posey has been given to 995 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #3,440 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 54 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 60% girls, 40% boys all-time.
Babies named Posey, 2025
1 in 73,700
Posey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Posey over time
In 2025, Posey went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Posey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 73,700
- 45 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 35,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,440
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 51,066 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Posey sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Posey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Poseys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Posey was born before 2019 — so the typical Posey is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 49.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 588
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (294).
Is Posey 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
- −117
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −173
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +307
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.10×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 83.3%
- Peak was 2022 (54)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.2% average annual change
Spellings of Posey
Posey is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 61.8% against Posey's 0.07%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Posey is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Posey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 405,495 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3Tennessee1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
- 5Utah1 in —
- 6Washington1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Posey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Posey is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Posey was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 245,837 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Virginia1 in 100,000
- 2North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Posey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Posey around the world
Where Posey ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2015–2025#1,892in 2025
- Canada2020–2020#2,936in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Posey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Posey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Posey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.