Posey is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Posie, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Posey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,066 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,066 in 2022; #3,441 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Posey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,441 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #3,066.
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Posey: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,066 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 54 (2022).
In 2025, 45 US girls were named Posey, making it the 3,441st most common girls’ name of the year, down 118 places from #3,323 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 48 girls named Posey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,066, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 54. For comparison, it was #3,748 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Posey in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #953, reached in 1889. The most boys given the name in a single year was 17, in 1921. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #3,251 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Posey in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 995 US babies have been given the name, 60% of them girls and 40% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 294 babies named Posey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 426 US girls were named Posey; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Posie (593 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Posey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,267 | — | — |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,516 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,432 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,748 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,277 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,384 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,934 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,033 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,845 | — | — |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,944 | — | — |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,140 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,413 | — | — |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,701 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #3,013 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,251 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,086 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,299 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,102 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,940 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,976 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,411 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,101 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,629 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,891 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,903 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,505 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,160 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,438 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,745 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,472 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,613 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,661 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,632 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,658 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,115 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,550 | 12 | #2,573 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,901 | 11 | #2,763 |
| 1921 | — | — | 17 | #2,036 |
| 1920 | — | — | 17 | #2,033 |
| 1919 | — | — | 17 | #1,955 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,978 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,690 |
| 1916 | — | — | 17 | #1,830 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,273 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,948 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,851 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,397 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,168 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #961 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,048 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #953 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,146 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).