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Posy

#14,509 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Josephine

Posy has been given to 106 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #14,509 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Posy, 2025

1 in 553,000

Posy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Posy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Josephine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Posy means

Posy is a diminutive of Josephine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Posy is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpoʊ.zi/ for Posy.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Posy → Josephine → Joseph. The family’s meaning is “(God) shall add”, recorded in English with the source elements Yoséf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Josephine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 106 girls were recorded with the name Posy between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,955 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,893 in 2020 to #14,509 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,992 in 2015 to #14,509 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Posy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,509
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Posy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Posy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Posys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Posy was born before 2019 — so the typical Posy is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
106
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Posy 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
+354
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,616
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,517
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2023 (14)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,955
2023

Spellings of Posy

Posy is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 40.2% against Posy's <0.01%.

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.

Posy around the world

Where Posy 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 & Wales
    2002–2025
    #1,407
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2007–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Posy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,509
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,616
Best rank ever
#7,955
2023
Peak year
2023
14 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
106
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Posy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Posy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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